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A team of technical experts from CVMR® Corporation has produced battery grade Lithium Carbonate from low grade Lithium brine deposits. Based on their work it has been proven that low grade, as low as 2000 ppm, ore can be processed to produce battery grade Lithium Carbonate. The initial economic estimation of the process are quite encouraging, but CVMR® executives believe that further tests have to be conducted to validate this process.

The team was able to achieve this mile-stone with a combination of ore beneficiation techniques and processing techniques. Implementing new ideas in the beneficiation and processing techniques, the team was able to reject major silicate fractions with minimal loss of Lithium and overcome the slime/clay interference in the recovery process to produce this result. The team expects that they can improve the recovery, and reduce the reagent consumption of the process in the near future to make the process even more economically viable.