The flow sheet in page 11 of the latest AGY presentation indicates they will use the conventional process in which case they will need lime. And a whack of it too.
About your supply shortages, have you considered the nine projects been commissioned now or that will enter into production in the next five years and will increase supply by about 260,000 tpa LCE?
Project tpa LCE
Abermale's La Negra, Chile 70,000
SQM/Lithium Americas's Olaroz, Argentina 50,000
Pilbara's Pilgangoora, Pilbara, Western Australia 44,000
Nemaska's Wabouchi, Canada 28,000
Neometal's Mt Marion, Western Australia 20,000
Orocobre’s Olaroz, Argentina 17,500
Altura's Pilgangoora, Pilbara, Western Australia 13,000
Talison's Greenbushes, Western Australia 9,000
Galaxy's Mt Cattlin, Western Australia 8,000
Total 259,500
Don't tell us that brines are better than spodumene: once refined, it is almost impossible to tell the origin of lithium carbonate.
Please put AGY's Rincon 150 tpa LCE in this context
DYOR
Cassandra, quod nemo credivit
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