Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) has produced battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate from the PAK deposit, part of the PAK lithium project in northwestern Ontario, 175 km north of Red Lake near the Manitoba border.
The lithium salts were produced using a third-party’s process technology from a purified lithium hydroxide solution at the company’s mini-pilot plant, Frontier Lithium said.
“We continue to progress, de-risk and execute on our plan to build a fully-integrated lithium chemicals company to service the global battery and electric vehicle industry,” president and CEO Trevor Walker said in the statement.
Frontier has two spodumene-bearing deposits at its PAK project. Spodumene is the most widely used lithium because of its high lithium content.
The company aims to become a fully integrated lithium producer of battery-quality lithium, a critical component in the batteries that power electric vehicles and high-tech devices.
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The pilot, conducted in partnership with mining and commodities giant Glencore (LSE: GLEN), received $363,000 (about US$300,000) from the government of Ontario in May.
The test work will support a prefeasibility study to assess the viability of a vertically integrated chemical company through operation of a spodumene mine and concentrator at PAK.
It could end in a commercial-scale lithium chemical plant that would create 500 jobs during a two-year construction phase, and more than 250 once it is operational.
In February the company released a preliminary economic assessment of its PAK open-pit project, forecasting a 26-year mine life with the potential to establish a hydrometallurgical chemical plant at an unidentified port in the Great Lakes.
Frontier’s tentative start date to begin commercial-scale mining at PAK is 2025.
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