S9E3 - What are the 10 Simple Secrets behind Standard Lithium's DLE Success?

with 🎙️ Robert Mintak - CEO of Standard Lithium 💧 Standard Lithium coins itself America's 21st century Lithium Company. They're expected to become the first lithium developer in the World to produce direct-extracted lithium at a commercial scale in El Dorado What we covered: 5️⃣ How Standard Lithium built a plan to grow to commercial direct lithium extraction (DLE) scale in five years 🔁 How you can't take lithium extraction processes off-the-shelf and how you can't copy-paste what works on a lab scale for a commercial scale 💧 How there's an overlooked part of DLE: managing high brine volumes and flows 🎁 How Standard Lithium "surprised" Lanxess with a lithium add-on to their bromine business 🤝 How you need to know what you know but also know when to team up and get support to take your project off the ground 💰 How Standard Lithium used a simple trick most companies wouldn't dare to apply: paying their partner to kick things off 🗺️ How the Lanxess project will serve as a Blueprint for replication across Arkansas' Smackover formation ⚔️ How there's no silver-bullet universal lithium extraction process and how you need to tailor it to your regional parameters ⚡ How to be future-proof and keep all options open to the evolutions in battery technology 📍 Why El Dorado, Arkansas is the absolute best place to build a lithium chemical business in North America 👍 How having a positive impact and walking the talk is key to be serious about supporting the energy transition and the EV Revolution 🌇 Fluid handling as a boring but necessary evil, developing win-win agreements, relationships to Koch Engineering and Lanxess, California and further Arkansas projects... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 🔗 Come say hi to Robert on Linkedin  🔗 Check Standard Lithium's website  ➡️ Check out the entire article on Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success   ➡️ Reach out to me: [email protected]  More 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.