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Enami signs agreement with US Sorcia Minerals to evaluate lithium extraction opportunities

The state-owned National Mining Company (Enami) signed an agreement with the American Sorcia Minerals LLC, with the purpose of identifying opportunities for the extraction and exploitation of lithium brine with the possibility of producing hydroxide and lithium carbonate in the medium term of battery grade to 99.5%.

In a statement, Enami stressed that Ensorcia has focused its business towards the lithium industrialization and the development of value-added products derived from this mineral and produced in state-of-the-art processing plants with minimal impact on the environment.

In this way, through its subsidiary Ensorcia Chile SpA, both companies defined joint collaboration ways to promote, from a technological point of view, the non-metallic mining industry and especially lithium, favoring the development of other derivative products of the same.

With this agreement, Enami seeks to strengthen its natural conditions to participate in the lithium business, as a relevant player in the national mining industry. Objective that the state has proposed in its strategic axes, by setting among its main management guidelines, the creation and viable capture of new mineral wealth diversifying its productive portfolio, identifying business opportunities in the country and processing of metallic minerals and not metallic

"This agreement is for us a tremendous opportunity for our plants and our own experts to be linked to the development prospects that the technological advances that are opening up for lithium, in order to improve the competitive position of our country in the mining industry non-metallic ", affirms the executive vice-president of ENAMI, André Sougarret, when emphasizing that this contract confirms the technical, economic and commercial know-how of the company to carry out projects of this magnitude.

In this regard, Daniel Layton, president of Sorcia Minerals, underlines the opportunity that this partnership opens up to generate a value chain that goes beyond the extraction of the resource.

"We are very happy to have reached a comprehensive agreement for the development of the lithium industry in Chile with the National Mining Company, the latter being the engine of the smaller-scale mining industry in Chile during the last fifty years."

https://www.redimin.cl/enami-firma-acuerdo-con-estadounidense-sorcia-minerals-para-evaluar-oportunidades-extraccion-litio/