Volt Lithium installs first direct extraction unit in Permian Basin

The firm plans to process over 200,000L of oilfield brine at its first direct lithium extraction field unit in West Texas, USA.

The unit represents a 1:83 scale to future commercial production. The company will now commence function-testing towards full-scale commercialisation in the near-term.

'The introduction of this initial Field Unit marks the achievement of another critical milestone of our strategy to become one of North America’s first commercial producers of lithium from oilfield brine,' comments Alex Wylie, President & CEO of Volt Lithium. 

The unit is modular, with plans to scale-up to process commercial levels of brine by adding modules to increase processing capacity, reducing lithium extraction time to increase volumes and implementing larger extraction modules.