Imerys British Lithium Limited

Imerys British Lithium Limited (IBL) proposes development of the world's first integrated quarrying, beneficiation, and lithium refinery in Cornwall, targeting the production of 20,800 tpa of battery-grade lithium carbonate for at least 30 years. The project uses technologies developed by British Lithium to extract high-purity lithium from micaceous grani...

This SuRP project will accelerate through validation of processes the scale-up of lithium production from pilot-scale, to a planned £446M quarry/refinery producing 20,800tpa LCE, meeting one-third of projected UK lithium requirements. British Lithium was the first company to drill for lithium in UK, and discovered a 117Mt lithium Resource in micaceous gra...

BLL has identified a substantial lithium-mica-granite Resource in the UK, but lithium has never been commercially extracted from mica. Mostly academic work has previously proposed chemical froth flotation of lithium mica and hot sulphuric acid leaching to extract the lithium, which would produce millions of tonnes of contaminated residues. BLL has develop...

Our goal is to establish in UK the world's first quarry and refinery producing battery grade lithium chemicals from unconventional lithium-mica granites, using our sustainable, novel technology. BLL was the first company to drill granites for lithium in UK and discovered a substantial lithium-mica-granite deposit in Cornwall, and first to begin research a...