https://insideevs.com/news/517624/gm-controlled-thermal-resources...

https://insideevs.com/news/517624/gm-controlled-thermal-resources-lithium/
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04...a-2-3-billion-electric-vehicle-battery-plant/
Livent who coined the expression high performance LiOH use DLE to extract Li from brine and have being doing so for years.
The company who has just done a deal with BMW.
It looks like you have a different opinion than GM on DLE and Geothermal extraction.
Agree large amounts of diesel is used at PLS for spondumene production.
I don't know the conc of Li in brine lakes in OZ or the Pilbara but don't discount it as once in production with wells they run 24/7 with little man power and no CO2 emmissions.
The conc can be much lower and still commercially viable.
AJM does have the ability to follow the same route as CTR has done in California or VUL in Germany in Fishlake Nevada and I am not discounting OZ.
Incidently, already posted by me Albemerle in Chile is doing the same.
They can now return fresh water to the environment courtesy of VUL DLE processes.
Those bankrupt boys from Simbol have shown the world that their ideas do work.
Egg on the faces of self professed experts who still say otherwise.
I do remember Eadie the Eagle.
Where I learnt to ski you needed to be Eadie to survive the day.