Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) has produced battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate from the PAK deposit, a part of the PAK lithium venture in northwestern Ontario, 175 km north of Pink Lake close to the Manitoba border.
The lithium salts had been produced utilizing a third-party’s course of expertise from a purified lithium hydroxide answer on the firm’s mini-pilot plant, Frontier Lithium stated.
“We proceed to progress, de-risk and execute on our plan to construct a fully-integrated lithium chemical compounds firm to service the worldwide battery and electrical car trade,” president and CEO Trevor Walker stated within the assertion.
Frontier has two spodumene-bearing deposits at its PAK venture. Spodumene is probably the most extensively used lithium due to its excessive lithium content material.
The corporate goals to grow to be a totally built-in lithium producer of battery-quality lithium, a vital element within the batteries that energy electrical autos and high-tech units.
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The pilot, performed in partnership with mining and commodities big Glencore (LSE: GLEN), acquired $363,000 (about US$300,000) from the federal government of Ontario in May.
The take a look at work will assist a prefeasibility examine to evaluate the viability of a vertically built-in chemical firm by operation of a spodumene mine and concentrator at PAK.
It may finish in a commercial-scale lithium chemical plant that might create 500 jobs throughout a two-year building part, and greater than 250 as soon as it’s operational.
In February the corporate launched a preliminary financial evaluation of its PAK open-pit venture, forecasting a 26-year mine life with the potential to ascertain a hydrometallurgical chemical plant at an unidentified port within the Nice Lakes.
Frontier’s tentative begin date to start commercial-scale mining at PAK is 2025.
