Some have posted recently wanting the link to the Sayona calculator. I have made a few updates and reuploaded it.
https://file.io/zeWhzqnz24pFThe one big thing that I noticed as people were adding screen shots is that the SOI was not being updated. Each time one of these announcements comes out you need to find the new shares on issue and update .
I have also started a notes tab, just to give a few thoughts
Finally I added an ore calculator which I would like some feedback on. I believe I have captured this correctly (as I know it) but if there are tweaks needed please let me know. My goal is to try and help each of you gain an understanding of what things can effect what our eventual production rate could be. I have highlighted the columns that you can change to influence what the final production rate is.
From the PFS they used a recovery rate of 67%, which I thought was low due to the upgrades, but if you are looking for the worse case you can use that.
I am also wondering if we will produce 6% spodumene or something less. My thought there is if we are not blending with Authier it may be better for the overall mine to produce a lesser grade until Authier is ready to blend in. I see PLS auctioning 5.5% spod at pretty high prices, so this may not be a bad thing if we can produce 5.5%, we would be able to produce more concentrate. If we are going to produce Carbonate we would still eventually need to produce 6% for our own plant efficiency.
tons per day, we have applied for (and maybe received) an upgrade from 3800 to 4200. The goal is 4200 so that is what I am using for now. It is possible that this number may even be higher once we added the new Jourdan claims which essentially double the size of the NAL land holdings.
The most difficult one for me to figure is the ore grade after pre-sort. I have attempted to find what others achieved in their processing but was not able to get a real good number and I must admit this is just a SWAG and nothing more. If anyone has a link that shows what other lithium producers have been able to achieve via ore sorting please post it.
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