Cleantech Lithium (AIM:CTL, Frankfurt:T2N) is advancing low-cost, low-impact, battery-grade lithium projects for the electrified future and doing so in Chile. It’s listed on AIM and considering a listing in Australia.

Chief Executive Ignacio Mehech joined the company a year ago, and in that time the company has achieved milestones including the first ever contract awarded to a non-state owned company for a fully private exploitation project in Chile.

In this interview investors will learn:

- What stage of development the flagship Laguna Verde project is at now that it has a Special Lithium Operations Contract

- What highlights the pre-feasibility study has revealed about the project including a net present value of $950 million

- How the company’s Direct Lithium Extraction concept is both economic and environmentally sustainable

- Why the company is confident the brine from Laguna Verde results in battery grade lithium

-  Who the company has engaged to help them source a strategic development partner

- What Ignacio hopes to achieve in the next 12 months on route to guiding Cleantech Lithium to become Chile’s first producer in 30 years

Ignacio Mehech, Chief Executive of Cleantech Lithium (LON:CTL) was interviewed by Sarah Lowther for focusIR.