tiger6301 wrote: This is a really good question!
I may be not correct, but try to answer this question.
In ETMC's PEA, the annual cost for the H2S pre-treantment is 19.9M$; Water Brine pumped is 128,000 Cubic meter, so it works out as:
19,900,000/128,000/365 = US$0.43
US$=1.3 Can$, so the water pre-treatment = CAN$0.55/Cubic Meter.
So you are correct, and after the H2S treatment & DLE, the water can be pumped back into ground directly without other treatment.
I am not woking in the oil field, the above is my understanding.
tiger
ratpoysen wrote: Anybody have any idea how much the water handling is gonna cost here?
Most O&G operators are paying 50 cents to $2.00 per barrel for water disposal.
Since E3 needs to produce and process and dispose about 20,000 barrels of water
for every ton of Lithium carbonate, that's gonna vast oceans of water to move about.
I'm getting about $20,000 in water handling costs for every ton of Lithium carbonate.
So, unless they can move water for nothin' - how is this thing gonna make any money?