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Piedmont also commenced its scoping
“The most important targets are in somewhat
study in January 2018, with Primero Group
chronological order: The ongoing drill
coordinating the study along with CSA. Both
programme, the US listing, the maiden
are very experienced in hard rock lithium
resource in June, which is well at hand. Fourth
mining and downstream production.
is metallurgical work which is underway, and we expect that to be largely completed in
SGS has also been a key partner on the
time for our scoping study in July/August.
project, providing all assaying services, while on the metallurgical analysis side Piedmont is
“Once we have a scoping study in place,
working with North Carolina State University’s
we will launch right into a pre-feasibility
Mineral Research Laboratory, a pioneer in
study and that will take us into the permit
the development of spodumene processing
application process and we will also continue
techniques, and Colorado-based Hazen
to develop relationships with potential
Research. Finally, the local Charlotte office
strategic and offtake partners.”
of global engineering firm HDR is leading the permitting process.
Full steam ahead
The scoping study will assess feasibility for a fully-integrated mining project including mine, concentrator, and lithium conversion
More recently, Piedmont has been working
plant to be located in the mining-friendly
on a secondary listing in the US that Phillips
North Carolina region.
hopes to complete by the end of April, which is one of several sequential targets that the company expects to hit over 2018.
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