And GLN will use evaporation ponds as well - AGY will still have to process 2.7 times as much to get the same amount of lithium, so the point still stands. Unfortunately if one has low lithium concentrations prior to evaporation, the ratio of lithium to some deleterious elements actually gets worse. The SO4 / Li ratio affects the evaporation process.
From a research paper on brines in the South America Puna region, titled "Influence of The Evaporation Rate Over Lithium Recovery From Brines" == The research demonstrates that "Concentration of Li+ , K+ , Mg2+ Ca2+ grows continuously and exponentially as evaporation increases, while Na+ and SO42- concentration decreases due to their precipitation"
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