Post by
juanPeru on Mar 23, 2019 4:35pm
Alex Holmes answering questions at PDAC 2019
Alex Holmes declaring in exclusive for MinerAndina as part of the Peru Day:
At 1:51:
What are you thinking about treatment/metallurgy?
There´s really two routes that are seem to be elevating themselves to the top. One of them is leaching: a tank leach or a vat leach, with sulfuric acid and using in-country supplies. The other route is roasting, which is heating the rock up to a very high temperature and then adding water; at a very high temperature all the other minerals, effectively, they calcinate, (...) and water pulls lithium out. (...) It's called roasting, very commonly used in the mining industry, both routes.
Your idea is to put it in production at what time?
Well, we're advancing as fast as we can. We think we'll be able to get to the feasibility study around 2021 and then in production.