Ann: Widgie Fast-tracks Faraday Li2O Deposit for DSO Opportunity, page-19

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    Anything above 1% is pretty reasonable. But as mentioned in the article I grabbed for you bellow if using a larger deposit you can push your grades much lower and still make profit like PLS is doing.

    We are such early stage in drilling this out my comment was a flippant one in which I would like to see more 1.2-1.5 or above and less of the 16m at .74 type stuff but it all adds to the overall resource and as long as your average grade is 1-1.2 or above you are sitting on some good ground. Especially if it is as shallow as WIN's tenements.

    Another thing to factor in is recovery and impurities etc.

    Basically i was being greedy and wishing for more. biggrin.png

    Grades of 1-1.5% considered the benchmark

    Grades of above 1-1.5% lithium oxide – (Li2O) is produced by the thermal dehydration of lithium hydroxide – are considered the benchmark for drilling results.

    The typical spodumene concentrate suitable for lithium carbonate production presents at around 6-7% Li2O

    You can get grades above 2% like at the Greenbushes mine in WA’s South-West where even its tailings are so rich in lithium that at a grade of 1.3% the battery metal is found in higher concentrations than many primary mines.

    But that’s generally considered an outlier.

    For miners in the 1-1.5% spot, since lithium prices are so high, there’s also the option of pushing cut-off grades down slightly and going with a larger, lower grade deposit.


 
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