“However, Ellison said building lithium hydroxide plants in...

“However, Ellison said building lithium hydroxide plants in Australia was difficult and expensive.

Instead, he wants to convert the current spodumene product containing about 6 per cent lithium to lithium sulphate with a grade of up to 30 per cent and sell it directly to electric vehicle makers.”

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MinRes wants to pivot into a mid-stream process as well but in their case the intermediate material will be lithium sulphate.

It will be interesting to see which of the two mid-stream processes mentioned so far, becomes the most popular.

I am thinking that within a year, much more will be known about mid-stream processing.

This will be good for both SYA and PLL who will be able to make informed decisions on the back of research by other parties.