Gewinner am Lithium (Batterien) Boom: Pure Energy Minerals WKN A2QJEB (Seite 115)

[berma]

Pure Energy ist eine Explorationsgesellschaft.

Auf der anderen Seite ist Pure Energy eines von zwei Junior-Lithium-Unternehmen, die ein Lithium-
Liefervertrag mit Tesla Motors Inc. ( "Tesla") eingegangen sind. Gemäß der Vereinbarung wird das Unternehmen Lithiumhydroxid zu Tesla für einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren liefern.

(Wenn ein Unternehmen liefert, ist es Produzent und verdient in aller Regel Geld.)

Wie ist diese Vereinbarung zu verstehen und welche Chancen werden aus welchen Gründen hier für Pure Energy gesehen?

Wäre hinsichtlich der Abwägung eines Investments in dieses Lithium-Unternehmen eine sehr hilfreiche Info.

[rechnerhand]

So viele interessierte Leser heute ...
Ich wollte damit keinem in die Optimismus-Suppe spucken. Ist nur schade, dass der CEO persönlich dem ein oder anderen die Augen öffnen "muss".

[rechnerhand]

A Tesla-Backed Startup Wants To Remake Lithium Mining

Exploration startups are putting stakes in the ground across Nevada's deserts as lithium prices spike. One company, Pure Energy Minerals, has even inked a deal with Tesla that could potentially provide lithium for their batteries. We spoke with the CEO of Pure Energy Minerals, Patrick Highsmith, about his project and what sets it apart. Below are excerpts of the conversation. It's part of our ongoing series "Behind the Battery Boom."

Q: Tell us a little bit about your company.

Highsmith: We are similar to other small mining companies, except we're exclusively focused on lithium. Our flagship project is Clayton Valley South Project, just outside of Silverpeak, Nevada. [Our project] encompasses a little over 9,000 acres, so it's about maybe six miles north to south and a couple of miles wide. We adjoin the Silverpeak mine, which is the first of the world's lithium brine mines, which went into production in 1966.

Q: Why is Nevada so unique and attractive to exploration geologists right now?

Highsmith: Well lithium is kind of a unique story. The way it's mined, it's the lightest of all metals. It has a number of unique properties. But, of course, most people know it because of its excellent energy density, which means it makes great lightweight batteries.

So the interesting thing about lithium is there are two ways to produce it. About 60 percent of the world's lithium comes from brine deposits. These are literally groundwaters that have lithium dissolved in it, and it can be extracted without digging a hole or what people would typically visualize as a mine.

About 40 percent of lithium, however, does come from hard rock deposits, where its mined, where we dig a hole we crush that rock down and process it. Tends to come at a higher cost because you have to drill and blast hard rock. ...Nevada is one of only a handful places in the world where these brines form, where they're rich enough in lithium to be potentially economic, and where they have formed reservoirs that are big enough to be economic. Really it's Nevada, Chile, Argentina and that's about it.

Q: So what makes your project different from the existing Silverpeak mine?

Highsmith: The technology we intend to employ to produce lithium, if we're successful, is quite different than that being employed at the Silverpeak mine. That was the first of its kind in the world, and we think the technology has evolved quite a lot since then. So we'll be looking at a very different approach to the extraction... Instead of large evaporation ponds that cover huge areas, or associated dust hazards with that kind of mining... and of course big ponds like that can have an impact on wildlife as well. And then the overarching issue in the Western U.S. is water. And anytime you're pumping a large amount of water — even though in this case it's very salty water and in no way potable — we wanted to look at a new technology there.

So if we're successful [we want to] employ solvent extraction for lithium processing, as opposed to an evaporation-based method. We believe it will have a lower environmental footprint, both in scale and size, and of course we won't have those ponds, as I mentioned. And we also believe we would be a much lower net consumer of groundwater, because we would intend to reinject the groundwater, once the lithium is removed, back into the basin from whence it came.

Q: Talk about supply, do you think demand will eventually outpace supply or is that already happening?

Highsmith: I would say that, at least a lot of literature we see and analysts we talk to, there's a real strain on the supply right now. And the reason is it's fairly difficult and slow to bring a new mine online, and the existing producers have not been successful getting those online.

Therefore, we've seen the price rise. The sort of anecdotal examples of over $20,000 a ton for battery-grade lithium carbonate are all over the Internet. ...So those are very high price spikes, and that's an example of a constrained supply, and we just haven't seen the new mines come online.

While the dreams of Elon Musk and others are exciting, we feel pressure in the lithium industry to bring new supply online, so that we can see these things become reality. It's kind of an exciting thing to be a part of, but it makes you wonder where are the new discoveries going to happen and when are these new mines going to come online? Because the world's demanding a lot of lithium at the moment.

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"Keine Panik, mein Gefühl sagt mir für nächste Woche Kurse um 0,80$ voraus. Ich jedenfalls bin tiefenentspannt und erwarte eine ultragrüne Woche." - Ach, kann die Welt manchmal schön bunt sein!

[andy1990]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 53.054.374 von Tony2607 am 13.08.16 16:30:10

Da gebe ich dir recht. So langsam sollten die Bohrergebnisse mal kommen. Ich denke zwar sie sollten zu unseren Gunsten sein aber man kennt das ja. Zu lange Wartezeiten und die ersten werden nervös und es gibt einen größeren rücksetzer als mir lieb wäre. Daher wäre es mal angebracht diese Woche eine News zu bringen.

[Tony2607]

Wann ist mit den Bohrergebnissen zu Rechnen? Hätten die nicht schon Ende Juli sein sollen?
Finde dazu auch auf der Homepage keine Antwort! Vielleicht könnt Ihr mir dazu neuste Infos geben!
Danke.

[sinamaria]

Keine Panik, mein Gefühl sagt mir für nächste Woche Kurse um 0,80$ voraus. Ich jedenfalls bin tiefenentspannt und erwarte eine ultragrüne Woche.

[andy1990]

Gestern abend trotz starken bid wieder jemand größere Blöcke verkauft und unser bid stark dezimiert. In den USA geht man von verwässerung aus. Wenn dem so ist bleibt zu hoffen das diese Kurs schonend betrieben wird und nicht wie beim letzten mal im Mai in einem -50% Tag endet.

[andy1990]

Die Accumulation scheint wieder vorbei zu sein. beachtliche Bid Unterstützung bildet sich um die $0.66. Die nächste aufwärts Welle mit neuem Allzeithoch könnte nun anstehen.

Ganz zu schweigen wenn hier plötzlich unsere Bohrergebnisse veröffentlicht werden. Es wird spannend.

[andy1990]

NEWS: Pure Energy Minerals Provides Update on Mini-Pilot Plant Work for Lithium Recovery Process

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pure Energy Minerals Limited (TSX-V:PE) (FRANKFURT:A111EG) (OTCQB:HMGLF) (the “Company” or “Pure Energy”) is pleased to provide an update regarding its Mini-Pilot Plant work with Tenova Bateman Technologies (TBT) at their research and development centre in Katzrin, Israel and at other off-site locations. The Pure Energy and TBT team has achieved several intermediate milestones on the preliminary process engineering work for the Clayton Valley South (CVS) lithium brine project:

Brine pre-treatment (LiP™) testing exceeded expectations for lithium recovery and rejection of magnesium and calcium. Two membranes have been short-listed and are undergoing additional testing;
Confirmed initial favorable results from the solvent extraction lithium recovery circuit (LiSX™) – highly efficient lithium recoveries into solvent and very low levels of lithium in residual brine;
Successful conversion of lithium sulphate into lithium hydroxide by electrolysis (LiEL™) – achieving higher current efficiencies than anticipated.
The CVS Mini-Pilot Plant program is beyond its halfway point and progress has been excellent. This larger scale study of Pure Energy’s proposed processing technology route for the CVS Project is on track to highlight the advantages of a real-time new technology approach to lithium recovery. The team is advancing simultaneously on several areas of the program, as described in more detail below. All of these data will be integrated into the process design flow sheet and engineering studies that will comprise the Company’s forthcoming Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA).

Patrick Highsmith, Pure Energy Minerals CEO commented, “We are very excited by our progress with Tenova Bateman Technologies on the Mini-Pilot Plant. Last year’s preliminary test results showed the solvent extraction technology to be viable at bench-scale, and this work is confirming success at a much larger scale while also providing engineering design data. As we reported in April of this year, the brine from our CVS Project has among the lowest magnesium contents of any lithium brine resource in the world. This makes it well suited for new direct lithium extraction technology, such as the TBT process. We look forward to building on this interim technical success to highlight its potential for low-cost, highly sustainable and environmentally friendly lithium production technology.”

Pure Energy’s proposed lithium recovery process consists of four main stages, as discussed below.

Pre-Treatment – The primary purpose of the pre-treatment stage is to remove alkaline earth elements (Ca, Mg and Sr) using either membranes (LiP™; TBT’s process, being tested in Katzrin) or via direct chemical precipitation (being tested at SGS Canada Inc.’s hydrometallurgy laboratory in Lakefield, Ontario). TBT has completed the initial phase of membrane selection, which consisted of testing eight potentially suitable membranes using a flat-sheet configuration test rig. After analysis of brine flux rates, lithium recovery and alkaline earth rejection, the team selected the two best-performing membranes. These two membranes are currently being tested in a larger, spiral-wound test rig using 6.4 cm (2.5 inch) diameter units. This phase of work entails passing approximately 200 L of brine solution through the membranes in each test run. Work is ongoing, but preliminary data suggest that the membranes are providing better than expected performance in terms of lithium recovery and alkaline earth element rejection.

In addition, work completed at SGS has shown promising results using conventional direct chemical precipitation of unwanted alkaline earth impurities, by raising the pH through addition of sodium hydroxide and soda ash. The work completed to date has demonstrated rapid removal of Mg, Ca and Sr, with effectively zero loss of lithium during this precipitation process. Test work continues at SGS on solid-liquid separation and other aspects of the chemical precipitation option.

Solvent Extraction - This stage takes the pre-treated lithium brine and uses solvent extraction technology (LiSX™) to selectively extract lithium from the brine into the organic phase. That organic is then chemically scrubbed to remove co-loaded impurities and then stripped to produce a concentrated high-purity lithium sulphate solution. Testing at TBT’s mini-pilot facility has focused on optimizing several aspects of the proven solvent extraction technique. The plant operators are employing their 40 mm (1.6 inch) diameter columns to determine and optimize the chemical conditions needed to gain maximum transfer of the lithium from the brine into the solvent, while they utilize their 100 mm (4 inch) diameter columns to assess and optimize the hydraulics of the transfer process. Initial results from the mini-pilot plant are very encouraging, showing that the transfer of lithium from the brine into the solvent is highly efficient, and that the ‘waste’ brine (which is otherwise chemically unchanged) contains near zero residual lithium. These results confirm the favorable LiSX™ results reported from the bench-scale testing in April 2015. Test work is ongoing to define and optimize the scrubbing and stripping of lithium from the Li-rich solvent to make a high purity lithium sulphate solution. This is being performed in the same test column apparatus.

Electrolysis - An electrochemical cell converts the lithium sulphate solution into a concentrated high-purity lithium hydroxide solution (LiEL™). This stage of process test work was completed at a dedicated testing facility with specialty expertise in electrolysis. The work assessed two possible membranes for use in the cell, and examined a wide range of electrical, chemical and physical conditions in order to optimize lithium hydroxide production. Initial data from the testing work show that very high current efficiencies were achieved operating at high current densities during the successful conversion of lithium sulphate into lithium hydroxide. This should translate to smaller equipment needed at full-scale, and result in lower than expected capital and operating costs for this part of the process, though this is still subject to confirmation in the PEA.

Crystallisation – The final stage of the process is to concentrate the lithium hydroxide solution in order to crystallize out a high purity lithium hydroxide solid product. This part of the mini-pilot testing is being completed at a dedicated testing facility in Plainfield, IL. Test work is underway and should be completed in the next several weeks, with results also being incorporated into the PEA.

Data and knowledge derived from the completed Mini-Pilot Plant will be integrated by Pure Energy’s engineering team into estimates of capital (CAPEX) and operating (OPEX) costs for the production of high-purity lithium hydroxide from a plant situated in Clayton Valley, Nevada. These data will be core to Pure Energy's plan to produce a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) later this year.

Dr. Ron Molnar, Professional Metallurgical Engineer (Ontario P.E.# 100111288), is a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101, and has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information that forms the basis for this news release. Dr. Molnar is independent of the Company.

About Pure Energy Minerals Ltd.
Pure Energy is a lithium-brine resource developer that is driven to become the lowest-cost lithium supplier for the burgeoning North American lithium battery industry. Pure Energy is currently focused on the development of our prospective CVS Lithium Brine Project, which has the following key attributes:

A large land position with excellent existing infrastructure in a first-class mining jurisdiction: Approximately 9,324 acres in three main claim groups in the southern half of Clayton Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada;
Adjacent to the only producing lithium operation in the United States (Albemarle’s Silver Peak lithium brine mine);
An inferred mineral resource of 816,000 metric tonnes of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE), reported in accordance with NI 43-101;
Metallurgical and process studies underway to better understand the feasibility and economics of using modern environmentally-responsible processing technology to convert the CVS brines into high purity lithium products for new energy storage uses.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,

[andy1990]

Pure Energy $0.71 +2.9%. Nach $0.75 wird es spannend. Dann könnten wir schon den $1 nehmen. Die Bohrergebnisse sollten nicht mehr weit entfernt sein. Die nächsten Wochen werden hier richtig spannend.