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St. Ives? It's the light you know.
Lots of mining heritage around Redruth. I'm in Carnkie and we have two sets of stamps, you can't look anywhere without seeing chiminies and engine houses, an old smelting site and a sizeable mine complex at Wheal Frances just over the road. There's a nice walk up the hill to the Basset monument and Carn Brea Castle. King Edward Mine Museum isn't far away as is the 'Poldark Mine' (actually Wheal Roots) where you can go underground.
If you want other industrial heritage, there are old china clay refining works near St Stephen and a gunpowder works at Kennal Vale.

"Have got a be in my bonnet to stay at Charlestown,not sure why."

Your missus wants you to re-enact scenes from Poldark?

You beat me to it. I was going to say "That's half way to York, isn't it"

Is the exclusivity of the absorbent just in its tailoring to their particular brine? At the CL Open Day they were saying that they tailor their resin to the particular brines, even within the confines of Cornwall.

I believe the "closed loop" is a feature of the DLE generally. CL were commenting (again at their open day) that they put brine in, extract the Lithium then can potentially extract the other 'impurities and use the water for industry or agriculture. The resin is then 'backwashed' to remove the lithium or other metals and reused.

"the Aussies haven't figured out how to get lithium from rocks."

Only because it hasn't been worth their while. Nobody was extracting Lithium from brine using DLE, but they are now. Necessity is the mother of invention. Now the value of the end product has soared every man and his dog are looking at ways to extract Lithium from various sources. I doubt Tesla bought 10,00 acres of Nevada without doing their homework on Lithium extraction from clay.

One assumes someone sold them to you. ;^)

That was my understanding from their AGM site visit.

A couple of shots of Carnkie this morning. They had just broken the bit and were removing all the pipes.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ul5x0bldyaf1pb7/20220112_113531.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jf034od4tp7z62n/20220112_113545.jpg?dl=0

southwesterner, I realise it would not make up the difference but aren't CL looking to gain by having a joint venture with Imerys whereby CL extract the Lithium and Imerys extract the Chin Clay thus being able to split the cost of mining the raw 'dirt'.

Even the internal combustion engine meters fuel through either a carburettor or a fuel injection system despite the fuel sloshing around in the tank. With a full closed loop supply system there wouldn't even be any sloshing. Your arguments keep falling down.

Why do you feel the necessity to try to berate people with derogatory comments just because they disagree with your viewpoint? An attempt at 'ad hominem' arguments.
I did not raise the topic of flow batteries but as you mention them. Is there any reason that the fluid should not be contained in a full. sealed vessel which would prevent any movement apart from its inertia (as a whole) which would be the equivalent of any battery. Basic fluid dynamics, ask your friend down the pub. Besides, have we not managed "sloshing around" of our fuel for the last 100+ years.

"All new news is old news happening to new people"

Twohits, unfortunately I don't have all day to sit and make 'hits' in reply to other's comments. The article from which I quoted the passage was only published on Thursday, I only read it this morning and it seemed a suitable response to your comment. I'm sorry it appears to have got your back up that a reliable source disagrees with your assertion that Sodium batteries are "not viable for vehicles".

leas, I don't have an agenda. I am invested in many Lithium companies and other battery material stocks. I have been invested in Zinnwald since the inception of the company, my original holding being a conversion from Erris Resources stock when Bacanora divested themselves of it. I have every reason to hope they are successful.
My first comment to you was suggesting that if the dearth of available Lithium becomes too great then the drive towards cheaper and more readily available Sodium is likely to be accelerated. My following comment to Twohits was in response to him dismissing the idea that EV manufacturers (particularly Tesla) would not hesitate to embrace Sodium batteries. Your comment that "supply cannot meet current demand" is the very reason this switch could be accelerated, Sodium being easily 'manufactured'.

As I said I believe "Lithium will have a good run", however it would be naive to ignore the alternatives and stick with the notion that Lithium is here to stay. Much the same as Silicon potentially replacing some if not all the Graphite in the anodes. Therefore, it is important to keep an eye on the emerging technologies.

Sorry if you think my posts are "really pointless". No offence intended.

“Silicon anodes present a highly valuable proposition for electric vehicles and indeed the largest opportunity for silicon anode material lies in BEVs with the possibility of silicon being used as an additive or as the dominant active material,” [IDTechEx]

I was under the impression that there was a swing towards LFP batteries for 'standard' vehicles leaving Lithium Nickel batteries for the high performance /power vehicles. One reason being the lack of necessity to use Cobalt for ESG/cost reasons and more costly/short supplied Nickel. Additionally, Lithium Carbonate battery chemistry has progressed enough to make the LFP batteries suitable for lower range/performance vehicles.

MajorOak: "Hell of a lot of waste per year."

Have you seen the Cornish Alps ;^)
Fondly called that, they are the spoil piles from hundreds of years of china clay production. BP's site is lost amongst them. They even have a handy crater outside their back door.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/St+Austell,+Saint+Austell/@50.3895859,-4.8096218,2419m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x486b402d27f80663:0x67ab6620adf12488!8m2!3d50.3403779!4d-4.7834252

Do you really think Elon would blink twice before moving into sodium-ion WHEN they become commercially viable. He's not going to scratch around for expensive Li. Easier and cheaper to obtain and safer than Li in a battery. Lithium will have a good run, without doubt, but the switch to sodium will not be far away.

leas, "necessity drives innovation"
If the deficit is large or sustained then the drive for an alternative like sodium will be stronger. Could end up as a shot in our own foot.

I was saying back when BCN hived off ZNWD that a JV with EMH on a processing plant would make a lot of sense as a saving on CAPEX for both.

SAV would likely be further ahead had they not had such vociferous objection from locals. Understandable as it is a new development in a non-mining area whereas ZNWD/EMH have the advantage that mining is historical in the area and probably receive more support than objection.

Foz
I empathise with your frustration but if EVERYONE had been paid out in a timely manner then the SP of ZNWD would likely have risen earlier so no real gain, assuming this sudden rise is a movement of BCN money.

Watch the games the MMs play.
EMH and ZNWD up today SAV was down, I'll expect a reversal in the next few days. They seem to 'counterpoint ' each other and have done for well over a year.