I believe that Burba stated that IBATS patented DLE absorbant material can be dialed in to the particular brine to differentiate and extract whatever they want...lithium,sulfer,copper,silver,gold, magnesium, zinc,etc..the process has been bested in the recent year .Galvanic was not the only brine that it tested at the St.charles plant..The DLE worked with many different levels of concentrations in the brines admirably..Testing results that Exxon Mobil and Chevron got thru Brent Wilson(CEO Galvanic Energy), and thru the SLR Validation proved that IBATs is what Burba has said it was and some..
As Quoted in an article with Exxon mobil, Stellantis, General Motors, and others have poured in hundreds of millions of dollars into DLE research developement..Our window of opportunity does not last long...says Chris Doornbos, CEO of E3 , which is developing a Canadian DLE project with support from Exxon Mobil subsidiary Imperial Oil..He says we must get commercialized now!..As far as we know we are the very first, or one of the few..IBATs commercialized DLE that has been tested positively by two leading mining /survey companys, SLR, and Greg Mehros Group....and we have our first contract customer in western US already vamping up the IBAT plant, upscaled up to producing 8,000 metric tons of Lithium Bi per year or more..producing lithium as early as June with that term sheet contract customer in western US? Soon we will know who that customer is..? ..; The new patents provide more details about the added pumps, pipes, and new bested absorbant material.. Salton Sea(BHE) or US Magnesium, Argentina or Chile..Arkansas Smackover with Exxon Mobil.. ?? Whoever they be..Multiple partners/contracts seem probable ..The sooner the Better.IMO..Burbas MDLE can handle different brines as he stated..dial it up Doc!
