Post by
Wangotango67 on May 30, 2020 10:52am
LITHIUM BONDING
Lithium is known to bomd to other - salt mimerals.
Magnesium, Potassium, Alumimum, Sodium, Calcium, etc...
If a junior sends thier brines to a lab, and asks to check the values of,
lithium hydroxide, or lithium chloride....
what will the lab check for .?
Just the two values.
WHAT IF...?
The lithium formed several bond's other than, chloride ?
What if there was one or, more bonds, occuring ?
In Tenova's extrsction flowsheet, we can see how magnesium and calcium
Are the first, minerals to be imparted.
Yet...Were these two, minerals checked for potential lithium bonds ?
How about other minerals lithium may have bonded to...?
Lithium, can form dual bonds even tetra bonds..
Which is why, thorough soil + brine tests should be performed.
A reanalysis shouod be performed.
Simple test...really.
pump brine from each, hole...even plugged ( holes )
add acid, even 10% to accomodate excessive ( acid consumption ) to allow
sufficient acid to pair with numerous minerals, mimerals that could, have one or more, bond.
Too weak will allow other salts to, steal, the acid bond, which might result in lithium having nothing left to bond to.
Ample Acid...overrides this.
Test, the soils in same, manner.
Knowimg how the lithium acts and responds in the basin, is imperitive
to knowimg how to impart + exploit for maximum % recovery.
If we point our compass to thacker...let's, now ask why , thacker, has higher values of lithium.
Could it be the lithium is with in the Rhyolite, calcite ?
Ironically, most juniors treat the calciim, as waste...yet, are they dismissing the potentiality
of lithium having hidden bonds to other minerals such as calcites, or other ?
At the end of the day...if, you only seeks lithium chloride,
that's all you'll...find.