Lithium Australia reveals first production from new battery recycling plant
The new plant can recycle up to 3,000 tonnes per annum of spent batteries.
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Livium Ltd is Australia’s leading battery recycler through its wholly owned subsidiary Envirostream — a profitable business focused on the recovery of valuable materials from end-of-life batteries.
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The new plant can recycle up to 3,000 tonnes per annum of spent batteries.
The lithium-ferro-phosphate cathode powder produced by VSPC has been tested by potential battery customers.
Envirostream is the only Australian company able to recycle all the energy metals from spent lithium-ion batteries.
The WA Clean Energy Forum is being held in Perth today, LIT’s managing director Adrian Griffin will be presenting.
The company’s 24%-owned battery recycling subsidiary Envirostream Australia recently signed an MoU for the sale of recycled battery metals.
Countries emerging as markets for CRMs are rapidly setting policy frameworks to widen their choice of supply away from China’s mining and processing dominance.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed with SungEel from Korea regarding the supply of recycled battery materials.
Recycling is one of four business units LIT has established as part of a restructure of its asset base.
The company has invested a further $100,000, taking its holding in the battery component separation business to 23.9%.
LIT’s four business divisions represent its processing technologies that can integrate the whole lithium-ion battery (LIB) production cycle.
Subsidiary VSPC has demonstrated the technological fit between LIT’s spent battery recycling and the process for producing material for LFP batteries.
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The company has demonstrated its ability to create a closed battery production cycle by regenerating cathode active battery materials from waste battery materials.
The waste-reuse technology worked on at ANSTO produces batteries from spodumene feeds not concentrates.
The drill program was following up rock chip samples grading up to 4.2% and the first batch of drill results that initially confirmed mineralisation of more than 1,200 metres of strike.
The company now has a sustainable economic solution to the major recycling challenge of batteries being consigned to landfill.
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The first batch of assays from the 54-hole program has revealed grades of up to 3.07% lithium oxide.
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Lithium Australia has cemented its partnership with DLG by incorporating a joint marketing division, which will trade as Soluna Australia.
Pegmatite intervals of up to 9 metres downhole have been intersected in drilling, assay results expected soon.
The company aspires to close the loop on the energy metal cycle with its disruptive technologies designed to furnish the lithium battery industry with sustainable supply solutions.
The company plans to mine raw materials such as lithium and vanadium, process them into end-products, and then be able to recycle used products to produce raw materials.
Applications have been received for more than 45.792 million shares from shareholders and new investors.
Field crews have been despatched, with drilling planned to commence before the end of this month.
All data indicates that the Dudley prospect has potential to host a lithium deposit in a location not previously identified for its lithium potential.
Envirostream operates Australia’s only battery recycling facility.
The issue is attractively priced at 6 cents per share (discount of 28% to the 5-day VWAP)
The company’s securities are in a trading halt until Tuesday, June 11, or when an announcement is made to the market.
The mineral resource was completed by consultant John Doepel and based on open file drilling data from 1999.
LIT’s proprietary process is used to refine lithium phosphate generating a high-purity chemical suitable for the production of lithium ion batteries.
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DLG is one of the 10 largest battery manufacturers in China.
Field work undertaken in January 2019 has confirmed a 450x100-metre spodumene enriched pegmatite swarm.
Envirostream owns a lithium-ion battery shredding facility that produces powder containing critical metals that are then exported for refining.
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The company will acquire the 18.9% stake for $500,000 cash in three tranches and $100,000 worth of shares.
The company is strategically positioned in the energy storage supply (ESS) chain.
Recent results show high-quality lithium-ion batteries can be generated from mine waste using its process.
Results support high-quality lithium-ion batteries can be generated from mine waste.
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MD Adrian Griffin will give an outlook on the cathcode production market at the Roskill lithium event in Perth tomorrow.
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MD Adrian Griffin will deliver a market outlook at Roskill’s lithium event in Perth this Friday.
The company is planning on drilling both lithium and vanadium occurrences in the near future.
The conference will be held at the Parmelia Hilton in Perth this Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22.
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Products from the company’s SiLeach® process have potential to influence the economic potential of the Sadisdorf project.
Data from the survey will be used to define lithium and vanadium drill targets.
This area has attracted investment from some of the largest lithium companies.
The lithium price faces a slow downward trend to 2022 as the market shifts into a supply surplus in 2019.
Rock chip sampling has generated potentially economic lithium grades of up to 4.2% Li2O.
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Products from the company’s SiLeach® process have potential to influence economic potential of the Sadisdorf project.
Mine waste to li-ion battery without the requirement to produce a lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate precursor is a world first.
A sample of the tri-lithium phosphate produced during the second-generation pilot plant campaign is now being tested.
The two-day Technology and Low Emission Minerals Conference featured many of Australia’s emerging resource companies focused on sustainable operations and new energy minerals.
The in-principle agreement involves the implementation of a four-stage development and commercialisation program.
The company’s subsidiary VSPC Ltd owns and operates a cathode powder plant in Brisbane.
The conference will be held at the Westin Hotel in Perth next Tuesday and Wednesday, November 13 and 14.
West Perth-based Parkway acknowledged Micon’s estimate of remaining historic resources at Davenport's project was still underway.
The company has a 33% interest in highly-rated German potash assets, 7.3 million Lithium Australia NL (ASX:LIT) shares and prospective greensands tenure in Western Australia.
The Youanmi Lithium Project hosts extensive lithium mineralisation and outcropping pegmatites.
The company’s SiLeach® pilot plant trial had produced lithium phosphate from mine waste.
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GlobalData forecasts that demand for lithium will more than double to 58,300 tonnes in 2022.
Wholly-owned subsidiary VSPC Ltd owns and operates the Brisbane facility.
The company aims to convert mine waste into lithium-ion batteries, a world-first.
Recent drilling at Sadisdorf showed the project's lithium resource growth potential.
The company’s proprietary SiLeach® process will now progress to a stage II trial which starts next week.
The factory opening ceremony will be live-streamed from 2 pm EST tomorrow.
Brisbane cathode powder pilot plant to be commissioned on September 6, 2018.
The company is advancing a scoping study to unlock the project using its proprietary SiLeach® process.
The company continues to test its 100%-owned SiLeach® processing technology.
Delivery of VSPC’s lithium-iron-phosphate battery cathode material is expected to begin later this year.
The enhancements will reduce capital and operating costs and improve product quality.
The company plans to complete a scoping study at Sadisdorf by October 2018.
High-grade rock chip sample assays follow the recent first five grab samples.
The Eichigt project is close to the company's Sadisdorf lithium project also in Germany.
Potential customers will be able to test the cathode powder products from September.
The Medcalf prospect adds to potential of the company’s Lake Johnson Lithium Project in the Yilgarn Block.
A maiden resource at Sadisdorf was estimated in December 2017 using historical data.
The inferred resource at Sadisdorf in Germany now stands at 25 million tonnes grading 0.45% lithium.
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Value-adding proposals present more opportunities for lithium explorers, developers and producers.
The hydrometallurgical process is aimed at extracting lithium and valuable by-products at commercial scale from lithium micas.
Pegmatites have been identified in the region around the Moolyella tin field.
Notably, the ore-sorting reject material also contains lithium, probably in the form of petalite.
The 2-4 tonne per annum cathode powder plant product could be used in lithium-ion batteries.
The Sadisdorf project contains a JORC tin and lithium resource with expansion potential.
The Sadisdorf project has the potential to provide feed for a commercial scale SiLeach® lithium carbonate plant.
The company aims to take waste from a former mining operation and extract lithium.
The company has a 26% interest in highly-rated German potash assets, 7.3 million Lithium Australia NL (ASX:LIT) shares and $2 million in cash.
The company recently acquired the Very Small Particle Company (VSPC).
Purchase of the Very Small Particle Company is completed within 48 hours of offer.
Share purchase agreement aims to finalise acquisition of the Very Small Particle Company.
The plant is a necessary step towards commercial lithium carbonate production.
Additional exploration licence covering 15 square kilometres around the Hegelshöhe hillside.
BlackEarth Minerals is expected to begin trading on Friday 19 January.
The company's shares are set to begin trading on the ASX tomorrow.
Drilling is also underway at the Sadisdorf Lithium Project in Germany.
The company’s shares are trading circa 10% higher intra-day, at $0.215.
Lithium Australia will hold 18.10% of BlackEarth Minerals.
Lithium Australia NL is disrupting the lithium supply chain.
The recently released maiden resource was based on historical drilling.
The IPO aims to raise a minimum of $4.5 million and a maximum of $6 million.
The company's processing technology will unlock the lithium value of the tin deposit.