Livium Ltd. · ASX:LIT
Livium — Lithium Australia NL — 121 Mining Investment, Cape Town 2019
18 slides from Livium's conference presentation, February 2019
Slide 1: Investing in the future
Investing in the future Adrian Griffin Managing Director ASX: LIT 1 121 Mining Investment, Cape Town, February 2019 Copyright © 2019, Lithium Australia NL
Slide 2: Disclaimer
Disclaimer This presentation is for information Certain statements contained in this LIT disclaims any intent or obligation to with foreign operations and related purposes only. Neither this presentation nor presentation, including information as to the update publicly any forward-looking regulatory
Slide 3: Sustainability: the key to the future
Sustainability: the key to the future The new and rapidly evolving energy market is being rials Li ch driven by low emissions, renewables and a requirement for battery storage of electricity to provide power on te em a Raw m demand. icals Energy storage and mobile power applications rely heavily on
Slide 4: Lithium Australia's business divisions
Lithium Australia’s business divisions Raw materials Battery materials Lithium Australia's portfolio of exploration and resource Lithium Australia’s 100%-owned subsidiary, projects encompasses diverse styles of mineralisation VSPC Limited, has produced some of the and mineralogy, with the potential
Slide 5: Raw materials
Raw materials Resource base Right now, more lithium is discharged in waste streams than ever reaches the supply chain. Such waste streams include: § micas liberated during the recovery of tin, tantalum and tungsten; § micas separated during the refining of clay minerals, and § contaminated spodumene
Slide 6: Raw materials
Raw materials Figure 2. Historic section of Lithium Australia's Sadisdorf project. Figure 3. Areas covered in Lithium Australia's resource portfolio. 6 121 Mining Investment, Cape Town, February 2019 Copyright © 2019, Lithium Australia NL
Slide 7: Resource development programme – 2019
Resource development programme – 2019 Lithium Australia’s principal tenet is that of The Sadisdorf PFS will consider: sustainability – utilising waste products from § mining; other operations. That said, security of supply also factors strongly in the Company's § tin recovery; decisions relating to
Slide 8: Lithium chemicals
Lithium chemicals Lithium extraction processes Lithium Australia has developed two proprietary processes to recover lithium from silicates without the need for roasting1. Both have the potential to revolutionise lithium processing by not only providing a low-energy method of producing lithium chemic
Slide 9: SiLeach®
SiLeach® SiLeach® process steps In 2019, the Generation 2 Concentrate Acid Acid SiLeach® pilot plant will be preparation digestion neutralisation superseded by the Generation 3 version. Stage 1: Purified Stage 2: Product By-product removal of solution removal of removal recovery The latter will inco
Slide 10: LieNA®
LieNA® Lithium Australia is also the developer and sole owner of the LieNA® process, designed specifically to overcome the shortfalls inherent in lithium recovery from spodumene using conventional 'conversion' processes. Shortcomings of conventional spodumene processing Conventional 'conversion' pro
Slide 11: LieNA®
LieNA® LieNA® process steps To summarise, the advantages of LieNA® compared to the current and Waste competing technology are: Concentrate Alkaline Sodalite preparation pressure removal residue: § lower energy consumption; digestion silicon § a smaller footprint; Sodalite Purified Removal of Product
Slide 12: Batteries: VSPC Limited
Batteries VSPC Limited A wholly-owned subsidiary of Lithium Australia, VSPC has 15 years’ operating experience, with a focus on the production of low-cost, high- performance cathode powders for lithium-ion batteries. Lithium Australia aims to deploy its VSPC technology globally, to ensure the sustai
Slide 13: Batteries
Batteries VSPC's cathode powder manufacture is based on simple nanotechnology. The cathode powders are precipitated directly from solution in a single process, ensuring very precise controls on chemical composition and particle size not attainable via the use of any other manufacturing technique. In
Slide 14: Batteries: VSPC commercialisation plan
Batteries VSPC commercialisation plan Anode technology Improving performance remains at Acquisition of Construction (2020) – financing and construction the forefront of lithium-ion battery VSPC completed of 5 k/10 ktpa plant storage technologies (‘range LFP production Feasibility study – Target = >1
Slide 15: Recycling
Recycling With resource availability an issue in the burgeoning energy storage sector, security of supply must also form a prime component of national energy management. Despite concerns about the availability of battery metals (lithium and cobalt in particular) in the not-too-distant future, at pre
Slide 16: Development plan – 2019
Development plan – 2019 Lithium Australia’s development plan for this year includes: § constructing and operating a Generation 3 SiLeach® pilot plant; § taking the Sadisdorf project to pre-feasibility; § completing feasibility for VSPC, and § further evaluating resources on land the Company owns. Li
Slide 17: Notes
Notes 19 121 Mining Investment, Cape Town, February 2019 Copyright © 2019, Lithium Australia NL
Slide 18: Lithium Australia – corporate snapshot
Lithium Australia – corporate snapshot ASX-listed: ticker LIT, LITCE Price (AU$) as at 29/1/19 0.09 Market capitalisation (AU$) 42 M Shares outstanding (LIT) 464 M Partly paid shares (LITCE) 170 M George Bauk Adrian Griffin Bryan Dixon (non-executive chairman) (managing director) (non-executive dire
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