Standard Lithium Announces Delivery of Its Sift Lithium Carbonate Plant to El Dorado Arkansas Project Site
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STANDARD LITHIUM ANNOUNCES DELIVERY OF ITS SiFT LITHIUM CARBONATE
PLANT TO EL DORADO ARKANSAS PROJECT SITE
EL DORADO, AR., July 15, 2021 Standard Lithium Ltd. (“Standard Lithium” or the “Company”)
(TSXV: SLI) (NYSE: SLI) (FRA: S5L), an innovative technology and lithium project development
company today announced the delivery of its ‘SiFT’ lithium carbonate plant to the El Dorado Arkansas
project site, located at the LANXESS South Plant facility. The SiFT Plant will be installed adjacent to and
connected to the Company’s LiSTR Direct Lithium Extraction (“DLE”) pre-commercial scale demo plant.
The SiFT plant is designed to take the intermediate product made by the company’s DLE process (a high
purity, concentrated lithium chloride solution) and convert that into a battery-quality (or better) lithium
carbonate.
The modular plant was sent as several truck-loads and has been reassembled on its purpose-built
foundations. Standard Lithium and its team of engineers and operators in Arkansas, assisted by the
experienced on-site team of Milam and HGA, is now reconnecting the modules, and making all utility,
instrumentation, control, reagent and process-flow connections between the SiFT plant and the existing
operating SLI Demo Plant. Following the connections being completed, a weatherproof structure will be
installed at the site, scheduled for later this month. Once the SiFT Plant is made weatherproof, then it can
be hydraulically integrated and site-specific commissioning can be completed; note that the SiFT Plant has
been fully commissioned previously, and has been running successfully for several months in Vancouver.
Photos of the installation process are shown below.
Figure 1: One of the SiFT lithium carbonate crystallization plant modules being lowered into position at Standard
Lithium’s Demonstration Plant in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA.
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Figure 2: The final module being loaded into position, with the Company’s LiSTR DLE Plant behind. Note the climate-
controlled container adjacent to the SiFT Plant, which will be used to store battery-quality lithium carbonate samples
produced by the plant.
The fully automated lithium carbonate crystallization plant has been designed around the Company’s
proprietary ‘SiFT’ continuous fractional crystallisation technology, which has demonstrated to produce
>99.9% purity (also known as ‘three-nines’) battery-quality lithium carbonate. The crystallization plant
was constructed by Saltworks Technologies Inc (see the Company’s June 6, 2020 news release). The SiFT
plant has been operating for the past year at a facility in the Greater Vancouver area; processing lithium
chloride produced at the Company’s Arkansas site, as well as reprocessing technical grade lithium
carbonate sourced from South American brine operations into battery quality Li2CO3.
Dr. Andy Robinson, President and COO of Standard Lithium, commented, “Due to constraints imposed on
our operations by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have, up until now, been running the SiFT Plant separately
at a location in the Vancouver area. This work has been extremely successful, and we have produced large
volumes of better-than battery quality lithium carbonate from lithium chloride concentrates made by the El
Dorado Plant. We’ve also been reprocessing very large quantities of low-quality material sourced from
existing South American brine producers, and have demonstrated that the SiFT technology can easily
upgrade off-spec material in a single, simple step. We’re now thrilled to move the SiFT Plant to El Dorado,
which was always our plan, get the plant connected and running, and then operate the only continuous,
24/7 start-to-finish brine-to-carbonate plant in North America.”
About Standard Lithium Ltd.
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Standard Lithium is an innovative technology and lithium development company. The company's flagship
project is located in southern Arkansas, where it is engaged in the testing and proving of the commercial
viability of lithium extraction from over 150,000 acres of permitted brine operations. The company has
commissioned its first-of-a-kind industrial-scale direct lithium extraction demonstration plant at Lanxess's
south plant facility in southern Arkansas. The demonstration plant utilizes the company's proprietary LiSTR
technology to selectively extract lithium from Lanxess's tail brine. The demonstration plant is being used
for proof-of-concept and commercial feasibility studies. The scalable, environmentally friendly process
eliminates the use of evaporation ponds, reduces processing time from months to hours and greatly
increases the effective recovery of lithium. The company is also pursuing the resource development of over
30,000 acres of separate brine leases located in southwestern Arkansas and approximately 45,000 acres of
mineral leases located in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino county, California.
Standard Lithium is jointly listed on the TSX Venture and the NYSE American Exchanges under the trading
symbol “SLI”; and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol “S5L”. Please visit the Company’s
website at www.standardlithium.com.
On behalf of the Board of Standard Lithium Ltd.
Robert Mintak, CEO & Director
For further information, contact Anthony Alvaro at (604) 240 4793
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