RE:EVERYONE SHOULD PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWINGI think that over the years Albemarle formally Rockwood has slowly depleted their resource by pumping more and more to fill their ponds over the last 50 or so years..
I believe they talked of perhaps deepening their evaporation ponds but all that might do is enable them to hold more brine. Water evaporates only from the surface and by adding more brine to each of the evaporation ponds they would need even more time to bring the final concentration to acceptable extraction levels..
They might have considered though, of adding more surface area by adding another shallow pond or two.. But by doing this they might actually lower the P.P.M. pumped because the increased amount of brine being pumped necessary to fill the additional ponds..
So.. if increased amount of brine resulted in an ever diminishing P.P.M. concentration then I think we could scrap all those thoughts..
I actually wonder if they actually could shut down the pumping of the original brine, say for a 6 or 12 month period, would the brine concentration then slightly recharge itself by underground leaching from adjacent clay surrounding area that hold higher concentrations of Lithium...
From the BLM Geologist reports I have read, only one report of many, suggested or thought that lithium contained in one area might be leaching or perhaps might be leachable. I wonder if the some other associated minerals may have assisted the movement of lithium underground
We know from now President Bill's testing of our Cypress Clay Deposit that small amounts of other minerals are definitely contained within Cypress's clay deposit in Nevada, and I think that leaching with underground sodium chloride (salt) over the many, many years has no doubt contributed to Albemarle's Brine containing underground pool and the resultant available PPM of Lithium.
With these thoughts of Albemarle's continual pumping of their brine containing the lithium, it is very possible that the amount now pumped over the past years has actually lowered the Lithium Concentration available, because of the low recharge rate from surrounding underground neighbourhood..
I would definitely include Cypress Development's Clay Deposit in any forward thoughts .EOM