Good to see nothing much has changed with your inventive writing,
re: "
We have been luck to have our board member from start Craig Williams (now retired) who was also director of Lycopodium. He did all the design work."
It is possible that I may be interpreting this incorrectly
but;
(a) Williams
has never been a director of Lycopodium according to the Annual Reports of;
~ Lycopodium from listing (2006) through to 2024
~ Liontown Resources also from listing (2006) through to 2023
* Nor has either Oresome Pty Ltd or Orpheus Geoscience Pty Ltd both being companies of Williams, been paid to provide contractual services to Lycopodium or Liontown, unless i have missed something?
Maybe there is some confusion as Steven Chadwick was a director of Lycopodium when a director of Liontown, as well as a working history (Lycopodium) across the globe including the Goulamina Project, Mali.
~ it is also interesting (opinion) that Chadwick was appointed less than 3 weeks prior to the release of the Scoping Study that Lycopodium had input into.
(b) Williams is
not a qualified design engineer, from his biography,
Craig Williams BSc (hons)
Mr Williams
is a Geologist with over 40 years experience in mineral exploration and development, whereas;
Steven Chadwick BAppSc (Metallurgy), MAusIMM
Mr Chadwick with over 45 years experience in the mining industry incorporating technical evaluations, operations, project development, engineering design and corporate management roles.
He has a
Bachelor of Applied Science (BAppSc), across other countries this is the equivalent to a Bachelor of Engineering. In Australia and New Zealand it is considered a highly specialised professional degree. Chadwick is also a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM)
I have no doubt Williams would have had input at the design of the mine but only from the field as a geologist (opinion) but to make comment he did all the design work, well
re: "
LTR called this plant as 2nd (or maybe 3rd) generation of lithium plants. Its design was unique. The whole-ore-floatation (WOF) design was applied. WOF is an old process flow but we have made a new version of it. LTR is keeping it a secret."
~ you do know that as Lycopodium was building Kathleen Valley it was also building Ganfeng's Goulamina Project?
~ both are 2nd generation lithium mines and both using the whole-ore-floatation design.
~ the only thing I agree with in your comment, is the designs will be unique for each project with different ore bodies, purities, etc but without the sensationalistic narrative of LTR keeping it a secret, did make me laugh though.
I'll show you mine, if you show me yours
Simplified flow diagram of Goulamina
Not all Lithium is the same, just like not all Africa Mining is dead ......
re: "
Ok, we know the Africa spod production is already dead. The Chinese already know that." -- your post
756364952 mines in Mali will be producing by the end of the year;
(1) The Ganfeng owned 267.2Mt @ 1.38 Li
2O Goulamina Lithium project, have already started commissioning, have 1.2 million tonnes of ore graded at 1.52% Li
2O stockpiled on the ROM pad in advance of production commencing. Stage 1 annual spodumene concentrate production 506,000 tonnes.
~ Just to appease your curiosity, the announced C1 Costs A$464.88 (US$312 per tonne concentrate - LoM),
AISC A$542.36 (US$364 per tonne concentrate - LoM)
(2) Kodal Minerals Bougouni Lithium Project.
https://kodalminerals.com/re: "
LTR has no private royalty issue. We paid $50m and bought the right long time ago. Only Gov and native title royalties." your post --
75545763Really no Private Royalties?
FYI Liontown paid Ramelius Resources Limited
$30.25 million to terminate the Kathleen Valley royalty held by Ramelius.
https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20210802/pdf/44yxhpn6sr9lng.pdf
Note: the Royalty termination date as per the announcement being 2nd August 2021
Note: the Definitive Feasibility Study was released the 11th November 2021, and it clearly shows Private & State Royalties.
https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20211111/pdf/452v4dtgf2cs05.pdfNote: the royalty holder is seeking court declarations in relation to the interpretation of Kathleen Valley royalty.
https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20231221/pdf/05ytj3nrv2ly9t.pdfThere is a plus when there is incorrect information posted, it sends one down the worm hole "again" not specifically to debunk those comments but to re-check your own analysis and research.
Question for anyone, who gets assigned the first shipment of SC6.0 Spodumene?
cheers
(20min delay)