Sustainable Lithium Extraction from Disruptive Technology

Lake Resources is using disruptive technology to sustainably extract lithium from brines to produce high-purity and high-value lithium products at low-cost.

Lake's lithium carbonate product offers battery manufactures a green and clean alternative to traditional sources of lithium. Lake's product fits with the increasingly strict environmental and social requirements of many end-users of lithium-ion batteries, as well as those of more environmentally conscious investors.

The company is currently in the process of taking its lithium-bearing brines all the way through the manufacturing process into battery cell production, something that separates the company from its peer group.

Lake is also using direction extraction technology to produce lithium chloride from its Kachi Lithium Brine Project, located in the Catamarca Province of Argentina (Figure 1).

The pilot plant, located in California, is operated by Lilac Solutions (private), a company backed by several billionaires, known for building innovative business.

The pilot plant commenced operations in late June and completed the first round of operations in July. The chloride product produced is now being converted into battery-quality lithium carbonate by independent assay laboratory, Hazen Research Inc (private), based in Colorado.