Kachi Demo Plant updates, page-400

Thanks mbot. The final pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are falling into place.
Yesterday I also read the PEA report from Standard Lithium knowing that they have had a pilot plant in operation for some time.
And timing is everything, as I finished reading the report to try to figure out why I couldn't find news of Standard Lithium scaling yet, @19stevo71 posted this.

"it's got nothing to do with low grade , it's everything to do with low impurity"
https://hotcopper.com.au/posts/62702002/single

The second line of the Standard Lithium Findings section 13.4.2
• Pre-Treatment of the incoming brine is necessary to remove dissolved gasses, non-aqueous phases & suspended solids
It goes on to talk about what this involves which sounds like a lot of additional process infrastructure (aka Capex & Opex)

And Dr Google says "kachi brine low impurities"
Kachi's big advantage is that the brine is very low on impurities and the company has already delivered lithium carbonate samples at 99.97% purity.