Some progress here:Brine Testing and DLE Pilot Plant UpdateOver...

Some progress here:

Brine Testing and DLE Pilot Plant Update

Over the next several months, LithiumBank will be running DLE pilot campaigns with brine collected from its Boardwalk, Park Place, and Saskatchewan projects. The Pilot Plant is currently being permitted by the City of Calgary and is expected to be fully commissioned in Q2 of this year. The pilot plant is a scaled version of the exclusive licensed DLE technology from G2L Greenview Resources Ltd. (“G2L”) (September 11, 2023) and has a 10,000 L/day brine throughput capacity, which is one of the largest lithium brine processing pilot plants in North America (Figure 1). The indoor DLE pilot facility is designed with safety and efficiency as the first priority. The plant replicates field operating conditions with a pre-treatment process and a heater to flow the brine into the DLE process at ~70 degrees celsius. Initially, a series of 3-10 day metallurgical tests will be run to determine lithium recovery rates and impurity removal with the use of low cost reagents. Following these tests, the Company will focus pilot test work on optimising reagent consumption, sorbent residence time, to efficiently maintain high lithium recovery at high flow rates. Results from this work will form the basis of Feasibility level studies and potentially future commercial operations.


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https://www.lithiumbank.ca/news/lithiumbank-provides-update-for-boardwalk-park-place-lithium-brine-projects-and-dle-pilot-plant