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Sayona receives funding from Quebec for research

Lithium Hydroxide Study

The Quebec government is paying $126,812 to the Sayona mine to study the production of lithium hydroxide for commercial purposes.

The Sayona Québec project, valued at $317,000, aims to test, in the laboratory, the effectiveness of a new process on spodumene ore from Abitibi

Unlike the traditional sulfuric acid process, this new process uses nitric acid, which reduces chemical expenditures and the production of rejects.

The project also intends to achieve the recycling of all chemicals used in the process.

Thus, the high purity lithium hydroxide resulting from this technology can be used in electric vehicles.

“With this project, Sayona Québec is part of the government's desire to electrify transportation with a view to energy transition. I salute this company which is more committed to the production of minerals of the future thanks to a new process for transforming a Quebec resource", commented the Minister of Natural Resources and Forests of Quebec, Maïté Blanchette Vézina, by way of of press release.

This project is part of the provincial government's desire to reduce the production of greenhouse gases.