The process route that has been engineered by GEA Messo and other consultant firms over the last four plus years, nearly five, is tailored to the Maricunga brine characteristics. What don't you get?
In simple terms they have reduced the evaporation time significantly which allows for a less concentrated lithium brine to be processed in the initial salt removal stage. This in itself will create process efficiencies along the production chain and allow for water savings.
AND we will still be in the bottom quartile of the lithium brine and hard rock cost curve.German engineers are some of the best in the world and they have not spent four plus years working and reworking their pilot plant just for the sake of it.
This will be the result of their hard work since late 2017:
And stop insulting LPI shareholders with your comparisons with Galan. LPI has 'actuals', Galan has a lot of unknowns.
