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Testwork by Lithium Energy and Xi’an Lanshen New Material Technology has recovered 92 per cent of lithium from Solaroz brine. Credit: File Collaborative testwork by Lithium Energy and Xi’an Lanshen New Material Technology has nailed an impressive 92 per cent lithium recovery using brines from the Solaroz project in the Argentine province of Jujuy. The direct lithium extraction (DLE) program uses Lanshen’s proprietary technology, which has already been proven on an industrial

Brines from Lithium Energy’s Solaroz lithium project produced ‘battery grade’ lithium carbonate in testing. Credit: File. Lithium Energy has achieved a significant project milestone at its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina with 99.5 per cent pure ‘battery grade’ lithium carbonate produced in testing. The company says the achievement is a key piece of data that will drive the design criteria as the project advances towards lithium production from its massive 3.26 mill

Brines from Lithium Energy’s Solaroz lithium project unloaded at Lanshen’s laboratory in Chile. Credit: File Laboratory testwork has begun on brines from Lithium Energy’s Solaroz lithium project in Argentina after the company sent a 10,000-litre sample to Xi’an Lanshen New Material Technology’s laboratory in Chile. It comes just six months after China-based Lanshen committed to building and funding a demonstration plant at Solaroz that would be capable of producing up to 3000

Lithium Energy’s spherical graphite magnified by 3120 times. Credit: File Graphite from Lithium Energy’s Burke deposit in Queensland has returned striking purification test results of more than 99.97 per cent total graphitic carbon (TGC), confirming it as battery anode feedstock just as global demand is set to rise. With world powerhouse China recently declaring tough restrictions on its graphite exports, companies such as Lithium Energy will be positioning to cash in on the

Lithium Energy executive chairman William Johnson has delivered an impressive scoping study into the company’s Solaroz project. Credit: File Lithium Energy has released an extraordinary scoping study with financial metrics showing its lithium brine project in Argentina could churn out up to $1.15 billion a year … and that is for a 19-year mine life. The company says the operation is capable of producing up to 40,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) per annum and c

Lithium Energy has upgraded its Solaroz lithium mineral resource estimate in Argentina. Credit: File Further drilling at Lithium Energy’s Solaroz brine project in Argentina has converted more than 70 per cent of its 3.3 million tonne lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) maiden mineral resource estimate into the higher “Indicated” category. Housed within the resource is a higher-grade core of 1.2 million tonnes LCE with an average concentration of 400 milligrams per litre lithiu

Evaporation ponds installed at Lithium Energy’s Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina. Credit: File Lithium Energy has kicked off metallurgical testing at its flagship Solaroz project in Argentina after securing the services of one of South America’s leading experts in lithium brine evaporation and testwork. The company has contracted the experienced Norlab SRL in Argentina to conduct evaporation testwork on representative samples of lithium-rich brines from Solaroz with

Lithium Energy’s operations area at the Salar de Olaroz. Credit: File Lithium Energy has unveiled the best hit yet from drilling at its Solaroz project in Argentina, with its latest diamond drillhole giving 24m at a grade of 483 milligrams per litre lithium from 233m to 257m depth in the sandstone of the Upper Aquifer. The company has also revealed that the same drillhole, at the northern Payo 1 concession within the Salar de Olaroz Basin, encountered continuous lithium brine

Lithium Energy drill rig at Solaroz. Credit: File ASX-listed Lithium Energy says a scoping study has outlined conventional solar pond evaporation as a “suitable methodology” for development at the company’s Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina. Management says pond evaporation is a tried and tested method used on the Olaroz Salar by giant global lithium neighbours Allkem and Lithium Americas Corporation for battery-grade lithium carbonate production. And it has also con

Lithium Energy drilling its seventh hole at its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina. Credit: File Lithium Energy has hit solid results from its first step-out drillhole outside its recently-released maiden resource at its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina, with a grade of 386 milligrams per litre. Assay results have confirmed a 24m intersection from the seventh hole sunk at the company’s Payo 1 concession and to the north of the previously-identified mineral r

Lithium Energy says testwork on its latest graphite samples have continued to build a compelling case for the construction of a specialised facility to produce precursor battery anode material at the project that sits 125km north of Cloncurry in Queensland. Management says its latest results from recently-completed metallurgical testwork on graphite samples from its Burke project, conducted by the Beijing General Research Institute for Mining and Metallurgy (BGRIMM) in China,

Lithium Energy has received record results from drilling at the sixth hole of its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina. Credit: File Lithium Energy is eyeing a potential mineral resource upgrade at its Solaroz project in Argentina after recording its highest grades to date, with lithium brine concentrations of up to 594 milligrams per litre. The company’s latest results come from drilling at the site’s sixth hole, which has been completed to a depth of about 623m and in

Lithium Energy has kicked off drilling at hole seven of its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina. Credit: File Lithium Energy is drilling a seventh hole at its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina in a step-out from its recently-released mineral resource of 3.3 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE). The latest hole is the first to test the conductive brines in the northern block of the company’s concessions on the Olaroz Solar basin – in a region th

Lithium Energy has three rigs continuing to drill at its Solaroz project in Argentina to target extensions to its maiden inferred mineral resource. Credit: File Lithium Energy is gearing up to join the ranks of a clutch of A-list producers in South America’s “Lithium Triangle” after releasing a maiden inferred mineral resource estimate of 3.3 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE), averaging 310 milligrams per litre lithium, at its flagship Solaroz brine project

Lithium Energy executive chairman William Johnson and projects general manager Graham Fyfe with Lanshen chairman Zhijun Feng, centre. Credit: File Chinese-based Xi’an Lanshen New Material Technology will build and fund a demonstration plant able to produce up to 3000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium carbonate a year at Lithium Energy’s Solaroz project in Argentina. The Solaroz lithium brine project takes in about 12,000 hectares in South America’s renowned Lithium Triangle. Th

Lithium Energy has doubled its graphite stocks after tabling a maiden mineral resource at its Corella project in Queensland. Credit: File Lithium Energy has doubled its total graphite inventory after tabling a maiden resource for its Corella project of 13.5 million tonnes at 9.5 per cent total graphitic carbon (TGC) for 1.3 million tonnes contained graphite. The latest figure builds on the company’s stocks at its Burke project that holds 9.1 million tonnes grading 14.4 TGC fo

Reverse-circulation (RC) drill rig at Lithium Energy’s Corella tenement. Credit: File Lithium Energy has made a significant high-grade graphite discovery at its 100 per cent-owned Corella graphite project in Queensland as it advances studies on a vertically-integrated battery anode material manufacturing business. Assays from the company’s maiden 16-hole, 1594m reverse-circulation (RC) drilling program have confirmed high-grade graphite mineralisation of more than 15 per cent

Lithium Energy continues to record impressive results from drilling at its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina. Credit: File Lithium Energy has hit conductive brines at its Solaroz lithium brine project in Argentina, with a sixth hole sunk at the site now intersecting the upper aquifer from 150m in South America’s “Lithium Triangle”. The company says the current lithology in hole six is similar to its fourth hole, 2.5km to the east, where it recorded concentrations of

Lithium Energy’s Burke graphite project is in north-west Queensland. Credit: File Lithium Energy has received positive testwork results from its Burke graphite project in Queensland, prompting it to launch a pre-feasibility study (PFS) into producing battery anode material at the site. Testing in China by the Beijing General Research Institute for Mining and Metallurgy (BGRIMM) achieved graphite concentrate grades of more than 96 per cent total graphitic carbon (TGC) using st