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Spain
San Jose Project

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 Location:
3 km E from Caceres, Spain

  Project Contacts:
Extremadura Mining S.L. Calle Juan de la Cierva n 18
Cáceres
Spain
10004
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Overview

StagePermitting
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Lithium
Mining Method
  • Transverse open stoping
  • Paste backfill
Processing
  • Filter press plant
  • Gravity separation
  • Sulfuric acid (reagent)
  • Centrifugal concentrator
  • Water leach
  • Purification & crystallization
  • Flotation
  • Magnetic separation
  • Sodium carbonate (reagent)
  • Ion Exchange (IX)
  • Rotary kiln & Electric furnace
  • Roasting
Mine Life26 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)
Infinity Lithium Corporation Ltd has now delivered a Scoping Study involving only underground mining and processing on site to produce battery grade lithium hydroxide.

The proposed underground solution removes the requirement for any open pit mining, replacing it with underground-only operations and preserves the landform at San José. An increase in scale of proposed production and change in mining method delivers an increase in direct employment over a comparable duration to the previously released Pre-feasibility Study.


Owners

Source: p. 8,6
CompanyInterestOwnership
Valoriza Minería 25 % Indirect
Infinity Lithium Corporation Ltd 75 % Indirect
Ownership Tree
Infinity is in Joint Venture with Spanish Company Valoriza Mineria.

Technologia Extremeña Del Lito S.L. (‘TEL’), the JV Company, holds granted and application tenure over the San José Project.

Infinity (75%) holds an option to acquire the remaining 25% interest in TEL

Deposit Type

  • Breccia pipe / Stockwork
  • Vein / narrow vein
  • Replacement


Summary:

San José is a zinnwaldite mica replacement deposit hosted by pelitic shales of the Central Iberian Zone, with lithium mineralisation occurring predominantly within the slates and to a lesser degree in the quartz carbonate veins which have been historically mined for tin. The rock which hosts mineralisation at San José is comprised roughly in equal parts mica, quartz and tourmaline.

Mineralisation within quartzite is typically low-grade. The pervasive nature of mineralisation (broad, relatively homogeneous distribution) is likely derived from a deep-seated intrusive source. Mineralisation is open at depth and has not been closed off by drilling.

The San Jose Deposit was formed by an amalgamation of quartz and quartzpegmatite veins, which formed a stockwork hosted by metasediments. The mineralisation is disseminated in both the host as lithium micas and the veins hosting tin as cassiterite, lithium as amblygonite-montebrasite and minor tungsten as wolframite. The lithium is found mainly in the micas of muscovite-fengite type in the host rock and in lesser proportion in the amblygonite-montebrasite of the veins.


Mining Methods

  • Transverse open stoping
  • Paste backfill


Summary:

Infinity engaged Mining Sense to produce an underground mining plan to support a 2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) processing plant located on site. To do this, an underground mine will be developed with the portal entrance located adjacent to the proposed process plant location in PIAV. This decline will extend approximately 1,300m and drive from the portal WNW declining to approximately 60m below ground before it encounters the resource.

Mining Sense selected transversal long hole stoping with paste backfill as the ideal mining method for resource extraction. This method, which allows mining in primary and secondary stopes, will enable maximum extraction of the mineralisation and maximum storage of tailings in the voids left through underground paste-fill.

The mine will ramp-up to full production over a 2-year period from start of production and then operate at 2.0Mtpa production for 22 years before it reduces based on current available resources to cease production after 26 years. The mine plan delivers 47.7Mt for a contained 145.7kt of LCE to the processing plant.

Mining will be conducted utilising twin boom jumbo excavators with mined material mucked and transported in Load Haul Dump (‘LHD’) to stockpiles. Front end loaders will rehandle mined material into articulated trucks which will deliver it to the ROM.


Crushing and Grinding
Flow Sheet: Source
Crusher / Mill TypeModelSizePowerQuantity
Pebble crusher 1
SAG mill 1
Ball mill 1
Regrind


Processing

  • Filter press plant
  • Gravity separation
  • Sulfuric acid (reagent)
  • Centrifugal concentrator
  • Water leach
  • Purification & crystallization
  • Flotation
  • Magnetic separation
  • Sodium carbonate (reagent)
  • Ion Exchange (IX)
  • Rotary kiln & Electric furnace
  • Roasting

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Summary:

The lithium bearing mica ore is separated from related quartz and tourmaline minerals through a crush, grind and froth flotation beneficiation process. The mica concentrate will then be treated via a sulphate roast using water leach with crystallisation and precipitation.

The beneficiation process plant will produce approximately 885ktpa of concentrate from 2Mtpa. The mine schedule is designed to produce approximately 19,500tpa of battery grade lithium hydroxide over 22 years of production after the initial two years of ramp up

Stage 1:
Comminution and Beneficiation.
Beneficiation of mined ore is envisaged using froth flotation to upgrade to on average 1.36% Li2O over the first 10 years with retention of ~42% of mass. The residual ~58% reject will be stored in separate dumps.

Stage 2:
Sulphate Roast, Water Leach and Purification.
The process flowsheet envisages the conversion of refectory lithium host mica minerals into a soluble s ........


Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. Annual
Lithium t 19,500
All production numbers are expressed as hydroxide.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics
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Reserves at May 23, 2018:
Cut-off grade at 2,500ppm lithium.

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Indicated 36.8 Mt Lithium 0.35 %
Indicated 36.8 Mt Li2O 0.72 %
Inferred 28.64 Mt Lithium 0.34 %
Inferred 28.64 Mt Li2O 0.75 %
Total Resource 65.44 Mt Lithium 0.34 %
Total Resource 65.44 Mt Li2O 0.74 %

Commodity Production Costs:

CommodityUnitsAverage
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2021 Study Costs and Valuation Metrics :

MetricsUnitsLOM Total
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UG OpEx $M USD  ......  Subscription required
Processing OpEx $M USD 1,930
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Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of October 14, 2021:
HME Type
Drill jumbo (two boom)
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Mine Management:

Job TitleNamePhoneEmailProfileRef. Date
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Staff:

EmployeesYear
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
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Annual Report 2018
Other 2018
Press Release 2018
Year-end Mineral Reserves 2017
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