Lithium Mining Virtual Plant

Grinding Circuit

Spodumene ore is crushed and ground down to a smaller size to prepare. Hydrite and dualamite reagants are milled an added into the process.

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Fluidized Beds and Calciner

Lithium, Sodium and Potassium, are converted to water soluble solvates at 1000°C, then air cooled in the calciner.

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Leaching / Flotation

Dissolved, along with trace amounts of Magnesium and Calcium. Other impurities remain insoluble. Leach solution is cycled to maximize lithium concentration.

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Evaporation and Crystallization

Clarified leach solution is mixed with recycled solutions and fed to evaporators, lithium sulfate is further concentrated.

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Espesante

Concentrates slurry by removing excess water using gravity to concentrate fine solids, optimizing slurry density for downstream filtration as potassium sulfate.

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Lithium Recovery Tanks

Trace calcium and magnesium are removed from concentrate, then lithium carbonate is precipitated by adding sodium carbonate.

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Filtering and Drying

Filters by-product (Glaubers Salt) and lithium carbonate after lithium recovery, or potassium sulfate from thickening, wash and dry for bagging.

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