Why Lepidolite is a big threat to Spodumene miners.

There are too many uneducated self taught geologists on the boards, they say there is no way to treat Lepidolite and that it totally false. Other companies have mixed Lepidolite into their total Lithium assays and hidden it by not declaring Lepidolite. I could name the big one but i will not at this point in time.

Please read the following article to get up to speed with Lithium extraction from Lepidolite, when people say the mica is useless and worthless they are referring to the by product from mining that usually runs at 0.2% Lithium.  I agree the 0.2% is worthless when combining the cost of extraction.

3-4% Lepidolite is a totally viable and profitable threat to spodumene producers in Australia.

Read the following Scholarly file and report back champs.

Extraction of Lithium from Lepidolite Using Mixed Grinding with ...