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Re: Joeiniowa post# 1557

Thursday, 08/18/2011 3:55:28 PM

Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:55:28 PM

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Agreed those are big, as chemist I see some other very important ones, so

three main takeaways are:

1) They are going to see how well the material works for making LMD. This opens up entire battery market if it works.
2) They are going to see if they get a saleable byproduct out of sodium sulfate.
3) They are going to see how safe environmentally the waste solids are. This will go a long ways with permitting.


to me gets extended with
4) "recycle streams can be evaluated to determine and monitor impurity build"
- - - This is huge, the dynamics of a solution chemistry can be radically changed by small amount of the wrong things being present. So this is saying are there other cations/anions that we are not scrubbing out that we need to provide a cycle to handle

5) "provide key information for leaching the manganese and production of pregnant leach solution"
- - - Pretty much as for 4 except 4 is with the post extraction purification that aims to recycle as much solution as possible, while 5 is for the initial extraction from the raw resource, but here likely includes optimize leechate solution composition, ie minimum chem cost for max MN recovery, for minimum zero value co-extractants or problematic contaminants, etc.

IOW much refining of extraction lab concept in context of the actual resource as it varies at volume. Consider it fine tuning of the process, from which the two processes sufficiency and there inputs character and costs estimates can be better constrained.


Almost looking like no EOD pps killoff today, yet to see.