Piedmont Completes Bench-Scale Testwork Program To Produce Spodumene Concentrate
July 17 2018 - 12:14AM
Piedmont Lithium Limited (“Piedmont” or
“Company”) (ASX:PLL) (NASDAQ:PLLL) is pleased to
report that the Company has completed a bench-scale metallurgical
testwork program to produce spodumene concentrate from ore samples
from the Company’s proposed vertically-integrated Piedmont Lithium
Project located in North Carolina, USA. Piedmont has partnered with
North Carolina State University’s Minerals Research Laboratory
(MRL) to complete bench-scale testwork including spodumene
flotation optimization, magnetic separation to remove iron from
spodumene concentrate and Heavy Liquid Separation (HLS) to evaluate
the potential for a Dense Medium Separation (DMS) circuit. The
completed testwork program confirms the interim flotation and
magnetic separation results which the Company published in April
2018 with additional testwork on four composited samples collected
from multiple exploration corridors within the Project’s core
property. Click here to view the full ASX announcement
For
further information, contact: Keith D.
Phillips President & CEO +1 973 809 0505
kphillips@piedmontlithium.com
Anastasios (Taso)
Arima Executive Director +1 347 899 1522
tarima@piedmontlithium.com
About Piedmont Lithium
Piedmont Lithium Limited (ASX:PLL) (OTC-Nasdaq Intl:PLLLY) holds a
100% interest in the Piedmont Lithium Project (“Project”) located
within the world-class Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt (“TSB”) and
along trend to the Hallman Beam and Kings Mountain mines,
historically providing most of the western world’s lithium between
the 1950s and the 1990s. The TSB has been described as one of the
largest lithium provinces in the world and is located approximately
25 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a premier
location to be developing and integrated lithium business based on
its favourable geology, proven metallurgy and easy access to
infrastructure, power, R&D centres for lithium and battery
storage, major high-tech population centres and downstream lithium
processing facilities. The Project was originally explored by
Lithium Corporation of America which eventually was acquired by FMC
Corporation (“FMC”). FMC and Albemarle Corporation (“Albemarle”)
both historically mined the lithium bearing spodumene pegmatites
within the TSB and developed and continue to operate the two
world-class lithium processing facilities in the region which were
the first modern spodumene processing facilities in the western
world. The Company is in a unique position to leverage its position
as a first mover in restarting exploration in this historic lithium
producing region with the aim of developing a strategic, U.S.
domestic source of lithium to supply the increasing electric
vehicle and battery storage markets. Piedmont, through its 100%
owned U.S. subsidiary, Piedmont Lithium Inc., has entered into
exclusive option agreements and land acquisition agreements with
local landowners, which upon exercise, allow the Company to
purchase (or in some cases long-term lease) approximately 1,199
acres of surface property and the associated mineral rights.
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