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Testing of efficiency for separating and purifying lithium and the removal of cations was conducted, with boron, calcium, potassium, and magnesium extracted to the solvents and sodium stripped into the brine. As previously announced Ekosolve™ Lithium Solvent Exchange Extraction process has been able to extract 94.9% of the lithium (“Li”) from the brines provided from the company’s 2022 DDH3 drill program.
The brines were processed at the Ekosolve pilot plant using theEkosolve™️10 stage extraction, washing and stripping process to produce lithium chloride, as contemplated as an end product under the offtake LOI between
This study and process was a pre-engineering step forEkosolve™Extraction performance in consideration for full sized plant scale-up of 10,000-20,000 tonner per yearEkosolve™Lithium Brine Extraction plant implementation at the Pocitos project, under the company’s technology licensing agreement announced on
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The next step is to further process the lithium chloride to produce and test lithium carbonate from the Pocitos brines.
Learn more about the Ekosolve™ process on Recharge’s website here https://recharge-resources.com/technology/
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Ekosolve™pre-engineering studies have previously shown that providing brine flow is in excess of 35,000 megalitres per year, with 110ppm LI content and above have been deemed economic. Recharge successfully completed a 2022 drill campaign at Pocitos 1 assaying 169 PPM Li and over a two-week period averaging 161 PPM Li All three drill holes at Pocitos to date have had exceptional brine flow rates.
Fig 2. Dec, 2022 Drilling at Pocitos 1 |
Fig 3. 2018 Drilling at Pocitos 1 | Fig 4. 2018 Drilling at Pocitos 1 |
The Ekosolve™️ Lithium Solvent Exchange Extraction process can efficiently manage the processing of the brines to produce lithium carbonate with a grade higher than 99.5% and a recovery of 96%, far exceeding any ion exchange or adsorption process available to date. Ekosolve™️ is licensed by the University of
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Lithium values of up to 169 ppm Li from laboratory analysis conducted by
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Figure 5. Pocitos Lithium Claim Map
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Phillip Thomas, BSc Geol, MBusM, FAusIMM, MAIG, MAIMVA, (CMV), a Qualified Person as defined under NI 43-101 regulations, has reviewed the technical information that forms the basis for portions of this news release, and has approved the disclosure herein.
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