Getting reliable and high quality minerals in today’s Lithium mining market can be challenging. With heightened supply chain and labor market risks resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, new security risks on horizon, and ongoing changes in trade and investment policies, comparing and prioritizing the most attractive market for customers, stakeholders is increasingly difficult.
With this in mind, Hudson mining Ltd taking this opportunity to increase its financial investment in setting up laboratory for Lithium, which allow our chemical analysts to identify and guard against issues that may impact our minerals quality.
Let us take a look at our newly-established chemical assay laboratory for the Lithium-bearing minerals - Spodumene, Lepidolite, Kunzite and Amblygonite,etc.
Mining research shown that Global lithium supplies are obtained from two primary sources: Brines and Evaporites
Lithium is liberated by weathering or may be derived from hydrothermal fluids from a variety of rock sources. Ground water brine solutions containing dissolved lithium accumulate in closed basins. Economic brines typically contain 200 – 4000 mg/l of lithium, and are pumped to the surface and concentrated by evaporation.
Hard Rock
The most common and economic lithium-bearing minerals are shown in the following table
Mineralogy
The XRD pattern of a hard rock exploration sample containing 0.24% Li (by chemical assay) is shown. XRD clearly identified the primary Li bearing mineral is Spodumene at a concentration of 4wt.%, however it cannot detect solid solution elements, such as Li in the mica. The Li content of the sample calculated from QXRD was 0.16%.
The new concept presented in our lab opens up new opportunities in lithium minerals processing due to:
– Highly selective separation of lithium minerals from hard rocks.
– Improved productivity.
– New advantages for value added by-products.
– Overall cost reduction.
We are confident with offering qualified Lithium minerals to all stakeholders.