Clayton Valley and Enertopia. . This is my opinion only based on my own research, so please take it as such. A single opinion.
At this point in time, our primary extraction target would be Cypress development. This "opinion" is based entirely on current mapping available online and may be offbased to actual resources.
Source: https://www.cypressdevelopmentcorp.com/projects/nevada/dean-lithium-project-nevada/
That entire yellowish shaded area is our target lithium source. Our claims neighbor Cypress immediatly east of the NE corner(dean claims). This surface non-hectorite lithium deposit is unique to this particular area. I would suspect it may very well lay below grade as well in many other areas currently being extracted via brines. Thus far to my knowledge and research is the only unique deposit of it's kind.
A little history lesson. Waay back when the (1976ish) USGS did their initial geologic surveys. They unintentionally mislabelled this deposit as good old Hectorite. An energy intesive mineral to process. It wasn't until recent corrections by producers and exploration in the area that this claystone was recognised by exploration for what it actually is. A high grade highly soluble surface deposit of lithium., commonly labelled as Claystone Lithium mineralization. Highly soluble is a great thing. But it requires a unique process to extract it economically.. And here we are. Enertopia.
Our initial phase 1 bench tests came back with some remarkable % recovery rates.
Pt1 of phase 2- the analysis of phase 1. ie. all of the technical tweaks required to optimize the process.
Pt2 of Phase 2 is our actual build out and bench test, as I now understand, which "should" result in actual bench test numbers, %'s with the ultimate holy grail goal of BATTERY GRADE LITHIUM CARBONATE.
The timeline has been set as per our 2017 update. Now we wait.
Please feel free to correct any mistakes as you all see them.
I wish everyone safe and happy holidays.
Lance