Even the unfunded Stage 2 plan is only around 10% of ORE's current production, let alone ORE's nameplate or planned capacity doubling. And they still have to design the plant to process the brine, which the ORE experience shows is not a trivial task.
Still it's great to have another Australian company in the brine space - if the lithium market tanks, it is the brine processors that will still be in business.