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MGX secures option over Argentina lithium brine project

25th July 2018

By: Creamer Media Reporter

     

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Canadian resources firm MGX Minerals has entered into an option to acquire an 80% interest in the Salinitas lithium brine mining tenements in the lithium triangle of Argentina.

The 4 308-ha contiguous land package resides in the Puna region of north-west Argentina near the border of Chile, an area renowned for its lithium- and potassium-rich brine resources.

MGX has agreed to pay $250 000 to TSX-V-listed AIS Resources to secure the option. The company can acquire an undivided 80% in the project at any time during the agreement by making payments totalling C$3.2-million. MGX has also agreed to incur total expenditures of at least $1.2-million prior to May 31, 2020.

MGX explains that the surface elevation of the Salinas Grandes salar is about 3 400 m above the sea level. The salar forms a composite closed basin with internal drainage, where discharge occurs by evaporation. Water inflow into the salar is produced by precipitation, and superficial groundwater incursions.

MGX plans to conduct a transient electromagnetic method geophysical study along with trenching, which will be followed by a drill programme along the edge of the salar, to test for shallow, near surface brines and determine locations with anomalous concentrations of lithium.

MGX has developed a rapid lithium extraction technology eliminating or reducing the physical footprint and investment in large, multi-phase, lake-sized, lined evaporation ponds, as well as enhancing the quality of extraction and recovery across a complex range of brines as compared with traditional solar evaporation. The technology is applicable to petrolithium (oil and gas wastewater), natural brine, and other brine sources such as lithium-rich mine and industrial plant wastewater.

Edited by Mariaan Webb
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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