Report
Stephan Bogner

The Emergence of Soft-Rock Lithium "Clay" Mining

Rockland positioned as Utah‘s leading lithium-clay exploration company with district-scale upside and permitting for maiden drill program in progress! Sediment-hosted lithium deposits represent a significant and yet untapped natural resource. This is about to change, with several projects in the Western United States pushing to start construction of sizeable mines in order for the nation to become less dependent on imports. While Tesla and Albemarle have dwelled upon novel lithium extraction methods for clay deposits, the market has demonstrated with pilot plants and simple flowsheets that processing with industry-standard methods is highly economic and competitive with brine operations in South America. Importantly, sedimentary lithium mines with on-site sulfur plants promise to be energy-independent – and even net-sellers of energy – with minimal water-usage for lithium extraction. As such, sediment-hosted lithium deposits can achieve a smaller carbon footprint with less environmental impacts than its brine and hard-rock counterparts.
 
Underlying
Zimtu Capital Corp

Provider
Rockstone Research
Rockstone Research

Rockstone is a research house specialized in the analysis and valuation of capital markets and publicly listed companies. The focus is set on exploration, development and production of resource deposits as well as marcoeconomic analysis of commodity and currency markets. Our international team of five analysts bring our German and English speaking readership a wealth of experience from the commodity markets: Stephan Bogner (mining analyst), John P. Barry (professional geologist), Chris Berry (macroeconomist), Prof. Dr. Hans Bocker (award-winning book author), and Boris Gerjovic (fundamental analyst).

Analysts
Stephan Bogner

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