5E Advanced Materials Completes Lithium Carbonate Preliminary Economic Assessment
5E Advanced Materials completed a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for lithium carbonate recovery at its Fort Cady facility, identifying direct concentration as the optimal pathway. The direct concentration method requires approximately $9.8 million in capital costs, significantly lower than the $25.3 million estimated for direct lithium extraction (DLE), while delivering a pre-tax IRR of 51.6% and a pre-tax NPV of $56.7 million.
Key figures
- Revenue
- 9522000
- Pre tax irr
- 51.6%
- Pre tax npv usd
- 56728000
- Post tax npv usd
- 39239000
- Capital cost dle usd
- 25300000
- Payback period years
- 2-3
- Opex per ton li2co3 usd
- 5841
- Annual production tons li2co3
- 523
- Capital cost direct concentration usd
- 9822000
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