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Message par energy_isere » 08 nov. 2020, 15:15

Suite de ce post du 4 oct 2020 http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 8#p2310118 au sujet de Spearmint dans le lithium Clayton Valley.

Les forages de test s'annoncent bons et ils décident de faire 2 forages supplémentaires.
Spearmint finds visual clay in each hole drilled at Clayton Valley lithium prospects

MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 5, 2020

Spearmint Resources (CSE: SPMT) announced that it has encountered visual clay in each of the first six holes it has drilled at its Clayton Valley lithium prospects in Nevada.

Based on these results, the Canadian miner said it has decided to extend the drill program to two additional holes and has already received approval from the Bureau of Land Management to do so.

According to James Nelson, president of Spearmint, this is the most ambitious drill program the company has undertaken so far.

“We are very optimistic about what we have encountered to date. We eagerly look forward to the first rushed assays on this project,” Nelson said in a media statement.

“We feel that battery metals will have a strong resurgence in 2021, especially in light of the explosive growth of the EV sector globally in 2020. Not only has the massive boom started to fully take hold, but Elon Musk stated at the Tesla Battery Day on September 22, 2020, his desire to acquire lithium clay deposits in Nevada. These comments have put a large microscope on the few known lithium deposits in Nevada, of which Spearmint is the only company currently drilling into one of these known formations.”

The Clayton Valley prospects comprise two claim blocks known as the Elon property and the McGee property which cover an aggregate area of 1,160 acres and border Pure Energy Minerals & Cypress Development Corp.

In this area, previous Spearmint drill results have intersected lithium values as high as 1670 ppm Li.
https://www.mining.com/spearmint-finds- ... prospects/

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Message par energy_isere » 17 nov. 2020, 07:52

Encore du Lithium au Canada.
E3 Metals PEA outlines 20,000 t/y Alberta lithium project

Jackson Chen | November 16, 2020

E3 Metals (TSXV: ETMC) announced on Monday the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its Clearwater lithium project, outlining an estimated production of 20,000 tonnes of battery-quality lithium hydroxide per year over a 20-year period.


The Clearwater resource area is located below surface in the depleted oil reservoirs of the Leduc Formation in south-central Alberta, which are full of lithium-enriched brine. The project area, totaling more than 250,000 acres, contains one of the largest lithium resources in the industry, E3 Metals says.

Over its project life, Clearwater would produce 400,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide, leaving room for expansion across the resource area and in the adjacent Exshaw and Rocky resource areas.
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Message par energy_isere » 22 nov. 2020, 10:43

Suite de ce post du 34 août 2020 http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 2#p2307862 au sujet du Chilien SQM

SQM veut augmenter fortement sa production de Lithium en 2021.
SQM pulls trigger on lithium growth in volume-over-price bet

Bloomberg News | November 19, 2020

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Brine pools and processing areas of SQM’s lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat, the world’s second biggest. (Image courtesy of SQM)

SQM, the biggest lithium producer after Albemarle Corp., is moving ahead with plans to more than double capacity in a bet that accelerating electric-vehicle demand will tighten a currently oversupplied market for the battery metal.

Reporting lower-than-expected third-quarter earnings, the Santiago-based company said its board approved an expansion as part of a $1.3 billion investment plan through 2024. Signs from China indicate that prices may have bottomed out and will improve next year, Pablo Altimiras, head of lithium and iodine, said on a call with analysts.

SQM is looking past the current lithium supply glut that has pushed down prices. In what BMO Capital Markets calls a volume-over-price strategy, the company wants to grow its market share and capitalize on a recovery when demand growth outpaces supply of the key rechargeable battery ingredient as part of a global energy transformation.

Soc. Quimica & Minera de Chile SA, as the company is known formally, expects lithium sales of 60,000 metric tons this year to increase by 30% next year, it said in an earnings statement late Wednesday.

In terms of lithium carbonate capacity, SQM will expand to 120,000 tons from 70,000 tons by the end of next year, while its hydroxide capacity will increase to 21,500 tons. Its board approved taking carbonate to 180,000 tons and hydroxide to 30,000 tons by 2023. Right now, it’s producing at a rate of 75,000 tons a year.

As part of the investment plan through 2024, SQM will also boost mining capacity for iodine nitrates, develop a seawater pipeline and introduce sustainability measures to halve its use of brine and reduce water use by 40% by 2030.

The company’s shares rose as much as 2.3% in New York on Thursday, extending a year-to-date gain to 73%.
https://www.mining.com/web/sqm-pulls-tr ... price-bet/

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Message par energy_isere » 29 nov. 2020, 11:17

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Le projet de mine de Lithium du Portugal progresse.
Ils ont réussi à produire du concentré de LiO2 à 6%.
Malheureusement il devra être raffiné en Chine.
Savannah’s Portugal lithium project moves to next permitting phase

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 26, 2020

Savannah Resources said on Thursday that, as part of the next stage in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process for its Mina do Barroso lithium project in Portugal, it had submitted further and revised information to the country’s regulatory authority.

The additional submission comes in response to a request received from the Portuguese environmental watchdog, Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (APA), the company said.

Savannah said the move underlined its commitment to developing and operating Mina do Barroso in a “low impact, responsible and sustainable” manner.

The multi-commodity developer, which is listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller firms, said it expected to receive a “declaration of the conformity” from APA for Mina do Barroso’s EIA in the next 20 working days.

That declaration would be followed by a period of public consultation, during which the assessment would also be reviewed by APA’s evaluation committee.

Taking into account the Christmas holiday period, Savannah said that phase was expected to begin in early 2021.

Results from the public consultation and the evaluation committee’s review would then form the basis for the committee’s “final technical statement.”

Such document would allow APA to prepare the contents of the environmental impact declaration, and award such a declaration to the project.

That would complete the pre-phase stage of the application process, which would then move to the second stage, expected to take 60 working days, and subject to receipt of approval from the APA, would result in the project receiving its environmental title.

Europe’s first

Savannah acquired a 75% interest in Mina do Barroso in May 2017 and it has maintained a fast paced development approach since.

The project holds a resource estimate of 20 million tonnes of lithium with over 200,000 tonnes contained Li20. Additionally, metallurgical test-work results have produced a 6% Li20 low impurity concentrate, which according to Archer is “ideal” for the EV battery industry.

The company believes that Mina do Barroso will become Europe’s first significant producer of spodumene, a hard-rock form of lithium.

One hiccup is that based on experts’ estimations, it is 2.5 times more expensive to produce lithium extracted from Portugal’s granite rocks than from the brine fields of Chile, which hosts some of the planet’s largest known reserves of the white metal.

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Mina do Barroso lithium project location. (Courtesy of Savannah Resources.)

“Mina do Barroso is in the lower quartile of spodumene lithium costs internationally and is the best European analogue of the successful Australian producers,” chief executive David Archer told MINING.COM last year.

“Australia is now the dominant producer of lithium illustrating the superior competitive position of hard rock producers of lithium, which is preferred for producing lithium hydroxide and has cost advantages over brines,” he noted.

Mina do Barroso is set to initially produce 6% Li2O spodumene concentrates destined for China. The open-pit mine will also yield a feldspar and quartz co-product to be sold to ceramics industry customers locally and in neighboring Spain.

Portugal, already Europe’s top lithium producer, accounts for about 11% of the global market, but its output is entirely used to make ceramics and glassware. That’s why Europe relies on lithium imports from Latin America’s “Lithium Triangle,” as well from Australia and China.
https://www.mining.com/savannahs-lithiu ... ing-phase/

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Message par energy_isere » 29 nov. 2020, 11:33

Encore un nouveau projet de Lithium de Salar en Argentine, le Sal de Vida.
Galaxy Resources to raise $118m for Argentina lithium project

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 25, 2020

Australian lithium miner Galaxy Resources (ASX:GXY) said on Wednesday it planned to raise A$161 million (about $118m) to fund development of its projects in Argentina and Canada.

Most of the capital raised will be used to advance the first stage of development of the company’s Sal de Vida lithium brine project, in Argentina.

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Galaxy Resources is targeting a 40-year operation at Sal de Vida. (Image courtesy of Galaxy Resources.)

Front-end engineering and design for stage 1 of that project is slated for completion by first quarter next year, with first production expected in late 2022.

The funds will also be used to get the James Bay lithium pegmatite project in Canada construction-ready, Galaxy said.

The company is allowing shareholders to purchase one new share for every 14 existing shares held for A$1.70 each. The figure represents a 15% discount to Galaxy’s last trading price.

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Message par energy_isere » 02 déc. 2020, 01:39

Un reportage sur le Lithium du Nord du Portugal et l'opposition de la population locale : https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/030273-78 ... reportage/
voir de la minute 1 à la minute 26.

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Message par energy_isere » 06 déc. 2020, 11:33

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Le projet de Lithium Thacker Pass dans le Nevada est en phase finale d'examen par les autorités de l'environnement.
Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass closer to production

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 4, 2020

Lithium Americas has moved one step closer towards production at its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada following the release of the project’s final environmental impact statement (EIS) by the US government.


Thacker Pass, located 100 km northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada, is host to the largest known lithium resource in the US. It is designed as a two-phase open-pit project, with production capacity that could reach 60,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) per annum over a 46 year-mine life.

The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees most of the country’s federal land, published the final EIS following a comprehensive review of the potential impacts of the project, including alternatives and a full examination of project and site-specific mitigation measures.

Those eligible to participate in developing the scope and content of the final EIS include: local communities and tribes, Humboldt County, the State of Nevada, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

“The publication of the final EIS is the culmination of more than a decade of work studying, exploring and developing the Thacker Pass project,” Lithium Americas president and CEO Jon Evans said in a press release.

“Thacker Pass has the potential to provide future sources of high-quality lithium chemicals critical for establishing a strong domestic lithium supply chain required to support a low-carbon economy.”

The company said it expects a record of decision, the last step in the federal permitting process, early in the new year. Meanwhile, water permit applications for the project, which were submitted mid-2020, are still being reviewed by Nevada state officials.

Lithium Americas previously said it plans to spend $400 million on the first phase of the Thacker Pass project, with initial output of 20,000 tonnes of lithium annually. The mine is expected to open by 2023.
https://www.mining.com/lithium-americas ... roduction/

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Grosse opération financière dans le minage du Lithium, le chinois Tianqi contraint à vendre de l'actif en Australie pour payer des dettes :
Tianqi Lithium sells 49% of Australian unit to IGO in $1.4bn deal

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 8, 2020

China’s Tianqi Lithium (SHE: 002466) said on Tuesday that nickel-gold miner IGO Ltd (ASX: IGO) had acquired a 49% interest in Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia, which controls Greenbushes — the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine, located about 250 km from Perth.

IGO has committed to invest $1.4 billion, a filing with the Australian Stock Exchange shows, which provides Tianqi with much-needed cash to make loan repayments originally due at the end of November, but extended to Dec. 28

Tianqi is keeping its 51% ownership of its Australian unit. It said it would use the proceeds from the deal with IOGO to repay the $1.2 billion principal on a loan taken out 2018 to partially fund the acquisition of a 25% stake in Chilean miner SQM for $4.1 billion.

The deal gives IGO an almost 25% stake in Greenbushes plus 49% in Tianqi’s suspended Kwinana lithium processing plant. The $770 million facility was mothballed shortly after commissioning earlier this year in light of weak prices and demand for the commodity.

That acquisition of an interest in SQM was part of an aggressive global expansion aimed at securing leadership in the lithium market. It succeeded in putting China in a dominant position just as sales of electric vehicles (EVs) took off, but it came at hefty cost for Tianqi.

The beleaguered Chengdu, Sichuan-based miner closed that deal when lithium carbonate prices were peaking at $17,000 per tonne. They have since plunged more than 70% due to a global oversupply of the commodity used in the making of batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and high tech devices.

“Humbling” deal
Tianqi’s decision of selling a stake in its Australian unit to a local miner comes amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Canberra.

Analysts believe the transaction is rather “humbling” for China considering the 14-point memo its Canberra embassy released in November, which accused Australia’s government of “poisoning bilateral relations.”

“[The deal] should allow Tianqi Lithium to retain control of Greenbushes while helping China Citic Bank get its money back (…) China might consider thanking Australia for the favour,” Financial Times’ columnist, Tom Mitchell, wrote.

Most experts were not surprised with the outcome. “Greenbushes is a large, low-cost asset and has contributed to China’s lithium supply security,” Alice Yu, S&P Global Market Intelligence, said in a research note.

The deal, which needs the approval of the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board, will be presented to Tianqi shareholders on Jan. 5.

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https://www.mining.com/tianqi-lithium-s ... -4bn-deal/

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The Greenbushes lithium mine, about 250km south of Perth, is the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium mine. (

https://www.mining.com/igo-in-talks-to- ... hium-mine/

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Message par energy_isere » 20 déc. 2020, 10:29

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Rio Tinto met à jour les ressources de Jadar en Serbie suite à de nouveaux forages.
Rio Tinto à lancé une étude de faisabilité d'une mine en juillet.
Rio Tinto declares maiden ore reserve at Jadar

Published by Jessica Casey, Editorial Assistant
Global Mining Review, Monday, 14 Dec 20

The ore reserve is 16.6 million t at 1.81% lithium oxide (Li2O) and 13.4% boron trioxide (B2O3).

The mineral resource underlying the maiden ore reserve has been updated to incorporate additional drilling which resulted in an updated geological model. Mineral resources are reported exclusive of ore re-serves.

The mineral resource comprises 55.2 million t of indicated resource at 1.68% Li2O and 17.9% B2O3 with an additional 84.1 million t of inferred resource at 1.84% Li2O and 12.6% B2O3.

The update precedes the release of the project’s ‘Elaborate of Resources and Reserves’, reporting required under the Serbian Reporting Code YU53/79. Declaration of resources and reserves is an important milestone as the project progresses towards the award of an exploitation license, the precursor to a construction licence.

Pre-feasibility studies have shown that the Jadar project has the potential to produce both battery grade lithium carbonate and boric acid. The deposit is located on the doorstep of the EU, one of the fastest growing electric vehicle (EV) markets in the world, and has the potential to provide lithium products into the EV value chain for decades. Boric acid is, a key raw material for advanced glass and fertilizer products and would be integrated with and complimentary to Rio Tinto’s established position in this market. The scale and high-grade nature of the Jadar mineralisation provides the potential for a long life operation in the first quartile of the industry cost curve for both products.

The project under study consists of an underground mine, sustainable industrial processing and waste facilities as well as associated infrastructure. Jadar, one of the largest greenfield lithium projects in development, would be capable of producing approximately 55 000 t of battery grade lithium carbonate, as well as 160 000 tpy of boric acid (B2O3 units) and 255 000 tpy of sodium sulfate as by-products. It represents a significant investment for Serbia with both direct and indirect economic benefits, and would become the country’s second largest exporter.

At the end of July 2020, the project moved into feasibility study, with an investment of almost AUS$200 million on a scope that includes detailed engineering, land acquisition, workforce and supply preparation for construction, permitting and the early infrastructure development. The feasibility study is expected to be complete at the end of 2021 and, if approved, construction could take up to 4 years.
https://www.globalminingreview.com/expl ... -at-jadar/

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De nouveaux résultats de forage intéressants pour Spearmint Resources dans la Clayton Valley.
Spearmint drills highest lithium values yet at Clayton Valley

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 14, 2020

Spearmint Resources announced that it has drilled the highest lithium values to date at the Clayton Valley lithium clay project in Nevada.

In a press release, the Canadian miner said that assay results from the first three completed drill holes of its phase-II 2020 10-hole drill program all intersected lithium and that assays from drill hole #5 intersected values as high as 1,840 parts per million lithium with a range of 1,840 to 420 ppm lithium.

Previously, the highest values intersected by Spearmint drilling were 1670 ppm Li.

This time, the company reported that all 10 drill holes yielded substantial thicknesses of light green to olive-green coloured clay.

“Color variations within the clay section are thought to be due to the state of the iron content within the clay formation,” the media brief states. “Intervals of bluish-green and light brown coloured clays were also encountered. The clay section is contained within a devitrified air fall volcanic ash that has been reworked by water. This clay formation is a widespread blanket-like layer that extends onto claims controlled by Cypress Development Corp. and Noram Ventures Inc.”

According to the Vancouver-based miner, this is the most ambitious drill program that it has ever undertaken and management is very optimistic about what the remaining seven drill hole results could yield.

“In light of receiving these results, management is confident this drill program should enable Spearmint to start the process of establishing a resource estimate for this project, once the remaining drill assays are received shortly,” James Nelson, president of Spearmint, said in the release.

The Clayton Valley prospects comprise two claim blocks known as the Elon property and the McGee property which cover an aggregate area of 1,160 acres and border Pure Energy Minerals and Cypress Development Corp.
https://www.mining.com/spearmint-drills ... m-project/

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BMW : commande deux études universitaires sur le lithium

CERCLE FINANCE•16/12/2020

Le groupe BMW annonce avoir chargé deux universités américaines renommées (Alaska-Anchorage et Massachusetts-Amherst) d'étudier les impacts de l'extraction du lithium sur l'environnement hydrologique en Amérique latine.

Métal le plus léger de la planète, le lithium est utilisé dans la fabrication de batteries, de céramique, de verre et d'aluminium, entre autres. Il s'agit d'une matière première essentielle pour la production de batteries lithium-ion et elle joue un rôle clé dans l'électrification des véhicules.

Les deux tiers des réserves mondiales de lithium se trouvent en Amérique latine. Cependant, jusqu'à présent, il y a eu un manque de recherche scientifique sur l'impact de l'extraction du lithium sur la région, indique le groupe BMW qui entend combler cette lacune avec les études commandées.
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Infinity granted key permit for Spanish lithium project

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 23, 2020

The Junta of Extremadura, in central-western Spain, granted Australia’s Infinity Lithium Corporation (ASX: INF) a key exploration permit required to progress towards an exploitation concession at the San José/ Valdeflorez lithium project.

Through Tecnología Extremeña del Litio, a joint venture it formed with Valoriza Minería, Infinity Lithium was awarded an investigation permit for an area known as Ampliación a Valdeflorez (PIAV). The permit provides the legal basis for TEL to retain tenure of the area, and the right to explore the grounds.

Ampliación a Valdeflorez is to be joined by the Investigation Permit Valdeflórez (PIV) and, together, they will make up the San José/ Valdeflorez lithium project.

Once the Junta of Extremadura and the Extremadura Department of Mines grant the PIV, the company can submit an environmental impact assessment and an application for a derived exploitation concession.

“The granting of Investigation Permit Ampliación a Valdeflórez is another positive development in both the progression of San José as the company moves forward towards lodgement of the mining licence application, and as a potential catalyst for other investment activities in the regional value chain,” Infinity’s managing director, Ryan Parkin, said in a media statement.

Located near the town of Cáceres, the San José/ Valdeflorez hard-rock lithium project is expected to be developed by open-pit methods with the ore treated and refined on-site.


The project terrain includes the PIAV and PIV areas. The beneficiation plant and downstream lithium chemical conversion facilities will be located in the PIAV area, using feedstock from the lithium mica ore contained within the PIV.

The project’s JORC resource has been estimated at 111.2 Mt, and mine life is expected to be 19 years.

According to Infinity, the fully integrated project can potentially produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide for up to three decades to supply the European market.
https://www.mining.com/infinity-granted ... m-project/

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SQM signs 8-year lithium deal with LG Energy Solution

Reuters | December 22, 2020

Chile’s SQM said on Tuesday it had inked a long-term agreement with LG Energy Solution to supply the South Korean battery maker with ultralight metal lithium, a main ingredient in powering electric vehicles.

SQM, the world’s No.2 producer of lithium, said the contract would run between 2021 and 2029 and involves the supply of approximately 55,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent, SQM said in a statement.

Pablo Altimiras, who oversees SQM’s lithium business, said the deal demonstrated confidence in the quality of the company’s product.

“These are long-term contracts that point to SQM’s stability,” Altimiras said, adding that the company would continue seeking out such deals in the future.

South Korea’s LG Chem, an electric car battery supplier for Tesla Inc and GM, said in September that it would separate its battery making business into a new company – LG Energy Solution – to meet growing demand from European car makers and increasing sales of cylindrical batteries used in Tesla cars.

Car and battery makers in the United States, Europe and China are scrambling to lock down supplies of lithium ahead of an anticipated boom in demand for electric vehicles.

Many miners had moved to boost output ahead of the rush, but the COVID-19 pandemic largely temporarily slammed the brakes on the electric vehicle revolution, driving down prices, denting profits and forcing many companies to shelve expansion plans.

In November, SQM nonetheless said its plans to boost its production of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide by the second half of 2021 were still on track.

SQM also plans to increase its production capacity to 180,000 and 30,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide, respectively, by 2023.
https://www.mining.com/web/sqm-announce ... -solution/

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RDC : le chinois Ganfeng sécurise un approvisionnement de cinq ans pour le futur lithium du projet Manono

Agence Ecofin 24 dec 2020

AVZ Minerals a bouclé l’étude de faisabilité du projet de lithium Manono, en RDC, et travaille sur l’obtention de financement afin d’entamer les travaux de construction de la mine. Les accords de prélèvement démontrent déjà la confiance des acteurs du secteur des batteries électriques dans le projet.

La compagnie minière AVZ Minerals a annoncé ce 24 décembre 2020, la conclusion d’un accord d’approvisionnement avec GFL International, filiale du producteur chinois de matériaux pour batteries électriques, Ganfeng Lithium.

Le partenariat d’une durée initiale de cinq ans et susceptible d’être prolongé porte sur la vente annuelle du concentré de spodumène (SC6), jusqu’à 160 000 tonnes, en provenance de la future mine d’étain et de lithium Manono en République démocratique du Congo (RDC).

« Le fait que nous ayons signé notre premier accord d'enlèvement avec le plus grand producteur chinois de composés de lithium ne fait que renforcer notre conviction que le projet Manono est de classe mondiale […] GFL s'est engagé à prendre 30% du SC6 commercialisable au projet chaque année », a commenté Nigel Ferguson (photo), directeur général d’AVZ, ajoutant que la compagnie va s’atteler à conclure d’autres accords similaires dans les prochains mois.

Pour rappel, AVZ Minerals doit mobiliser 545,5 millions de dollars pour développer le projet Manono. Selon les prévisions de l’étude de faisabilité, la compagnie s’attend à une production annuelle de 700 000 tonnes du SC6, et 45 375 tonnes de sulfates de lithium primaire sur une durée de vie de 20 ans.
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Re: Le lithium, une flambée en perspective?

Message par energy_isere » 10 janv. 2021, 10:25

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Albemarle va investir plus de 30 millions de dollars pour agrandir le site de production de Lithium dans le Nevada.
Albemarle to expand Nevada lithium production facility
Move is in response to growing global demand as North American automotive manufacturers reorganise their supply chain for great security and sustainability

Dominic Ellis Jan 8 , 2020

Albemarle Corporation, a leader in the global speciality chemicals industry, will expand capacity at the company’s lithium production facility in Silver Peak, Nevada.

It will also begin a program to evaluate clays and other available Nevada resources for the commercial production of lithium, a critical mineral in green mobility, and comes as North American automotive manufacturers are looking to reorganise their supply chain for greater security and sustainability.

As such, Albemarle’s investment in Silver Peak, which produces lithium from brine extracted from the Clayton Valley basin, will support this increased demand for domestic supply of lithium, the company says.

The company plans to invest between $30 million and $50 million starting this year, to double current production at the Nevada site by 2025, making full use of its brine water rights.

Additionally, the corporation aims to commence exploration of clay and evaluate technology in 2021 which could accelerate the viability of lithium production from clay resources in the region. It also looking at ways to optimise lithium extraction from its brine resources, including those in the Clayton Valley.

Through a Department of Energy-sponsored research project with Argonne National Laboratory, Albemarle it is investigating a process to streamline production of lithium hydroxide, which is principally used in EV batteries, from brine resources.

"As a leader in the lithium industry, our priority is to optimise our world-class resources and production. This includes Silver Peak, a site uniquely positioned as the only lithium-producing resource in the United States," says Eric Norris, Albemarle President, Lithium.

"This investment in domestic capacity shows that we are committed to looking at the many ways in which Silver Peak can provide domestic support for the growing EV market."

Albemarle's domestic resources also include the historic 800-acre Kings Mountain, N.C., lithium site, which is one of the richest spodumene ore deposits in the world and home to the company's global lithium technical centre and piloting operations, as well as lithium-containing brines in Arkansas.

Demand for lithium is expected to surge in coming years as EV adoption picks up pace globally. Tesla, the US-based electric vehicle manufacturer, says that its production increased by 39.6 percent year-on-year in 2020, while sales rose by around 35.9 percent over the same period.

Demand for lithium hydroxide is expected to increase as the development of high-performance batteries improves, and vehicles with a longer driving range are brough to market, experts say.
https://www.miningglobal.com/supply-cha ... n-facility

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