Smackover Lithium files feasibility study for SWA project

Smackover Lithium, a 55:45 owned Joint Venture between Standard Lithium (SLI) and Equinor (EQNR), announced that the Definitive Feasibility Study, DFS, for its South West Arkansas, SWA, project has been filed. The DFS contemplates production capacity of 22,500 tonnes per annum of battery-quality lithium carbonate over a 20-year modeled operating life, producing 447,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, LCE, or 38% of the in-situ Measured and Indicated Resources of 1,177,000 tonnes LCE. The Project will begin production at an average lithium concentration of 549 mg/L, and will process 0.50 km3 of brine over its modelled 20-year life at an average lithium concentration of 442 mg/L.