{"id":7687,"date":"2024-03-27T02:32:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economicherald.net\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2024-03-27T02:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:32:24","slug":"project-builder-galan-lithium-increases-brine-resources-by-20-to-support-four-stage-60000tpa-production-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economicherald.net\/?p=7687","title":{"rendered":"Project builder Galan Lithium increases brine resources by 20% to support four-stage, 60,000tpa production target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18% increase of resource to 8.6Mt LCE at HMW project in Argentina<br \/>\nWith lithium sentiment on the upswing, GLN well placed when Phase 1 comes online in H1 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Special Report<\/em><\/strong><strong>: New data has been incorporated to upgrade Galan Lithium\u2019s total resource once again up to 8.6Mt contained lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) at 859mg\/L Li \u2013 one of the highest grades declared for Argentina brines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HMW covers a total estimated area 18km long, up to 8km wide and 730m deep, adjacent to projects owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/stockhead.com.au\/company\/arcadium-lithium-ltm\/\"><strong>Arcadium Lithium (ASX:LTM)<\/strong><\/a> and POSCO.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/stockhead.com.au\/resources\/high-grades-big-profits-and-low-costs-phase-2-dfs-shows-galans-hmw-lithium-project-truly-worthy-of-tier-1-status\/\"><strong>definitive feasibility study (DFS)<\/strong><\/a> update earmarked a four-phase ramp-up to full production, with Phase 2 production set for 21,000tpa LCE in 2026, 40,000tpa by 2028 for Phase 3 and 60,000tpa LCE for Phase 4, which will then include <a href=\"https:\/\/stockhead.com.au\/company\/galan-lithium-gln\/\"><strong>Galan Lithium\u2019s (ASX:GLN)<\/strong><\/a> other brine project at Candelas.<\/p>\n<p>Pond 2 is currently being filled as part of the company\u2019s 5,400tpa lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) Phase 1 target. Pond 1 already contains 500t of LCE, and Pond 3 construction work is also well under way.<\/p>\n<p>With lithium sentiment on the upswing, GLN is well placed to feed the market when it comes online in H1 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Further resource upgrade<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>GLN says ~20% resources boost to 8.6Mt LCE @ 859mg\/L Li across its HMW and Candelas projects, with the inclusion of the Catalina tenements, \u201cadds flexibility, optionality and leverage to any lithium price upswing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The updated MRE incorporates geological and geochemical information from 31 drillholes for 9,043m and upgrades the previous resource of 6.6Mt LCE @ 880mg\/L Li.<\/p>\n<p>A significant enhancement from previous MRE was the inclusion of the north project area in the Rana de Sal II, Rana de Sal III, Catalina, El Deceo I and El Deceo II areas which make up the Catalina tenements.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><em>The Catalina tenements incorporated into the latest MRE upgrade at HMW. Pic supplied: (GLN)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest significant upgrade in the high grade, low impurity HMW resource highlights the potential enormity of the brine resource that sits within Galan\u2019s tenements,\u201d GLN MD Juan Pablo (JP) Vargas de la Vega says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoupled with our Candelas resource, Galan has a very solid foundation, and more importantly has delivered a further validation that its Hombre Muerto Salar resources fully support our four-stage lithium production target of up to 60ktpa LCE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe HMW project is robust and underpinned by strong financial metrics as illustrated in its Stage 1 and Stage 2 DFS results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe constantly evaluate opportunities to increase the value of the HMW project in parallel with continuing to construct Stage 1 as we look forward to first commercial production in 1H 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was developed in collaboration with Galan Lithium, a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article does not constitute financial product advice. You should consider obtaining independent advice before making any financial decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/stockhead.com.au\/resources\/project-builder-galan-lithium-increases-brine-resources-by-20-to-support-four-stage-60000tpa-production-target\/\">Project builder Galan Lithium increases brine resources by 20% to support four-stage, 60,000tpa production target<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/stockhead.com.au\/\">Stockhead<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18% increase of resource to 8.6Mt LCE at HMW project in Argentina With lithium sentiment on the upswing, GLN well placed when Phase 1 comes <a href=\"https:\/\/economicherald.net\/?p=7687\" class=\"read-more-link\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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