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@sparkes_dwayne Thanks for your response! Since I love reading your 'coffee posts' and love your technical deep-dives, you may wanna take a look at their DFS certified, patent-pending, novel extraction process and maybe call out any B.S. you may find. Cheers!
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With sulfur prices this high, the costs of processing lithium clays, oxide ores (copper, nickel, REEs) is going to BLOW OUT.
The smelting of sulphide ores produces sulphuric acid as a byproduct. The processing of oxide ores consumes sulphuric acid.
#LAC's Lithium America's Thacker Pass for example is going to do 40,000 tonnes per year of carbonate in phase 1. They've stated a 2250t/day sulphuric acid plant, which is 821,250 tonnes of acid per year.
So each tonne of carbonate could require 20.5 tonne of sulphuric acid per tonne of Li₂CO₃. That's about 6.8 tonnes of sulphur.
Using the Chinese futures price of US$1050t, that's US$7140t worth of sulphur per tonne of Li₂CO₃.
#LAC will most likely source their sulphur internally. American fertiliser companies during Q1 paid US$488/t for molten sulfur, which is $3318 per tonne of Li₂CO₃. I'd imagine its higher now looking at the Chinese price.
Spodumene uses 50-60% less acid. Food for thought. I love spod.
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@sparkes_dwayne What are your thoughts on Century Lithium's flowsheet that uses HCl produced on-site?
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I should also note, that the price of sulfur could naturally correct itself with a moments notice, and LAC will go back to paying the price listed in their study.
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The champions league is the best football by a mile, but these penalty decisions for handball really are a stain on the competition. Last nights was worse but that should not be a penalty against White.
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