Enertopia extraction vs CYP ore body
I heard a podcast today in which CYP were talking about their Clayton Valley maiden resource estimate of 6,500,000 tons of LCE and the CYP guy was saying that they can extract 80% of the lithium using a mild acid solution. He then said that the million dollar question was "how do we process the concentrate?" Enertopia in a couple of weeks are set to announce the long awaited results of their extraction technology that is designed to take a clay stone (the same geology as CYP's as they are next door to ENRT/TOP), produce a brine, remove all the contaminant minerals such as Mg and CA and extract the lithium resulting in a battery grade lithium carbonate and all in one short process, without the need for the processing stage that CYP are scratching their heads over. Imagine that. What could be the answer?
I wonder whether CYP are the only ones with this problem, that don't want to sit around for a year and a half waiting for their brine to evaporate, etc etc.
It's been a long wait but we are literally two or three weeks away from proving this tech, and assuming they are successful, making Enertopia one of, if not the lowest cost producers of battery grade LiC2O3!!