HERE'S ANOTHER EXTRACTION IDEALITHIUM EXTRACTION FROM BRINES
Wrote - about this years ago - on another bullboard.....
- Junior has lithium brines
- Junior drilsl severa lholes into the brine horizon
- Junior could also applies this to fresh water brines = capture incoming surface lithium / salts
- Dril lhole is converted to = electrolosis rods
- Rods electorlitically charged - attracts salts
- SALTS STICK TO ROD
- Miner lifts rods out = descales lithium and other salts
- Salts are now in a concentrate
BENEFITS ?
- Miner no longer has to process - numerous cubics tonnes of brine
- The watershed that passes through basin liberates lithium
- The lithium comes to the miner - upon miner setting up at strategic hole locations
- Miner could even create turbitiyholes - headstream - to induce more salt liberatrions
to assist the electrolytic rods to capture more = salts
This inventive method of mining salts would be dependent upon basin recharge with new waters passing through - hence the importance of - setting up numerous dill holes for electrolytic extraction - of salts at - choke points where watershed is known to pass through-
andat key location of upper fresh water brines and lower horizons.
One report i read - surmized 3000 - acre feet of water dumped into the basin -watershed + sourrounding rainfall - amd 200 acre feet exiting basin = thats the equivelant of - 2800 acre feet of water retention -
Now - i would lean moreso to beleiving - 2800 acre feet of water ports out and a retention of 200 acre feet - why ? All because if the basin continually retained 2800 acre feet of 3000 acre feet it would turn ot a flood zone - lake....lol
So... i'm mor eapt to beleive the grerater sum of water of the 3,00 acre feet would pass thorugh the basin - which makes a compelling case of - could a miner exploit this water that passes thorugh -and if so - just how much salt would the water bond with - and - not just the basin itself - but incoming salts from upstream basins adjacent to the basin in question -
2800 acre feet = 3453744 cubic meter
= 3,453,744,000 liters
200 acre feet = 246696 cubic meters
= 246,696,000 liters
1 - target your brine horizons ( retention )
2 - target the upper fresh water horizons ( retention and exit ports )
The movement of water passing through a basin each year - redistributes new salts - new salts are reloaded - for miner ot extract -
Far better than -cost of pumping brines up and using polymer beads - wink....
The costs of the electrolytic / static rods would be far cheaper -
Like collecting honey off the comb.
Plus... numerous other salt credits...
Yip- another wango idea... tease.
Why bother to move tonnes of brine when the miner could extract the salts
using smart tech ideas....
Finding a basin with sufficent watershed movement would be key.
if one crunched the numbers using 100 ppm lithium ( not including other salt credits )
and used the larger watershed volume
= 1,875 LCE tonnes
Not something to jump up anddown and write home to -
But.. i.f several operations were up n running
Miner could compound on this figure say with 3-4 operations
KEY TAKEAWAY -
- NO WATER TO PUMP UP / TREAT ( less issues withpermitting + epa etc )
- LESS COSTS - NO LARGE PLANT NEEDED
- EASE OF MINING SALTS
- EACH YEAR - NEW SALTS - ARE CARRIED INTO BASIN
- CREATES A MULTI SALT CONCENTRATE - RIGHT FROM FIRST STAGE
- also - ideal for salars with 500 ppm over seas....
so sorry to flood a bullboard - but...
i like to invent...lol
AgaIn - compare this idea to polymer beads ...
And i would say.... this is far more practical - cheaper -and doable....
Why pay premium ofr polymer beads when on could design the electolytic rods from off the shelf products...wink...its the inventive idea that is most important - so many juniors run the ritual of - pay through th nose - thinking thery have to spend gobs of money to spend on a plant to mine - reminder - keep it simple - original lithium mining involves pump brines throw into - pond - treat and evaporate - pretty simple mining - which is all th emore reason - to invent another form of mining that - allows the miner to evade the pains of processing all the water - which points to - electrolytic static attraction - using rods - let the lithium coe to the miner-
Cheers....