Novel domestic battery grade lithium-carbonate value chain for green life.

Project acronim: Li4life

Institute for Mining and Metallurgy Bor is one of the partners of the Li4life project, “Novel domestic battery grade lithium-carbonate value chain for green life”, coordinated by: International Center for Advanced Materials and Raw Materials-ICA, ES.

SUMMARY OF PROJEKCT: The fact is that the lithium deposits within the EU are associated with different mineralization in solid host rocks, except from the lithium brines of South America and Australia. This mineralization require a special approach when processing and purifying happen up to battery grade lithium carbonate. Li4Life proposal creates of an efficient technology for the extraction of lithium from poor or complex ores of underutilized deposits, as well as post-mining tailings, as the basis for the development of future clean energy. Reference objects is potentially viable lithium projects have been identified in Europe from Finland in the North, through Germany, Austria and Czech Republic in Central Europe, to Spain, Portugal and Serbia in the South-West and South- East. To cover the needs of the EU Battery Industry, Li4Life is aim to contribute an ambitious objective to increase the EU domestic supply of local raw materials by at least 5% to upcoming 2030. This is possible by creating an innovative value chain for domestic lithium raw materials. Li4Life’s pathway to this ambition – novel processing methods, and purification up to battery-grade lithium carbonate to overcome existing barriers, namely the lack of sustainable social licenses to operate (SLO) and compliance with strict EU environmental laws. MMI Bor in the terms of project, from 1.march 2024 to till next 36 months, will try to development new extractive technology for getting lithium carbonate from ELB Serbia ore. And then, will perform continuous pilot tests on the other type of ore from Europeans partner.

Within the scope of the project, the procurement of the main and supporting equipment of mini flotation cells for basic flotation and three-stage purification is foreseen:

Invitation to submit offers

List of rough flotation and cleaning equipment

Technological scheme