S9E1 - Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!)

with 🎙️ Benjamin Sparrow - CEO and Co-Founder at Saltworks Technologies  💧 Saltworks provides innovative products and solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and desalination. What we covered: 🎢 The current state of Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) and its possible technological paths 🤝 How DLE gets paired with Concentrate Refine Convert (CRC) processes and how this takes lithium to battery-grade 4️⃣ The Two main sources of Lithium in the World and their Two Contenders (DLE & Battery Recycling) 📆 The timelines of a lithium mining project and how fast tracks are myths 🏃 How speed to market is going to be a key metric for a new lithium player's success and how to maximize your chances of success 🇨🇦 How regions with a rich mining history, such as Canada and Australia, will lead the charge in the lithium mining revolution 💧 How water processes being massively used in lithium extraction projects will have consequences on lead times and technology availability in the Water Sector 📈 How lithium mining is an industry where everybody is growing and how there is more money flowing into the sector than companies ready to receive it 🚀 Generation 1 vs 2, Evaluating a Surprise Lithium Project, what's important for DLE's Success, Key market players, Growing as a water technology scale-up... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 🔗 Have a look at Saltworks' website  🔗 Come say hi to Benjamin on Linkedin ➡️ Check out the entire article on Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!) ➡️ Reach out to me: [email protected]  Other Episodes in this Series: 1 - Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!) 2 - The Shocking Requirements of Spodumene Processing (and other Lithium 101 stories) 3 - Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success (and how that rolls out in El Dorado) 4 - How 'Reverse ZLD' made the World's Largest Water Company a Lithium Refinery Expert Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.