Stria Completes Proof of Principal Developement of its Upstream Lithium Chloride Production Process

Stria Capital Inc. (TSXV:SRA) has successful completed Phase 1 of its “proof of principle” development of a novel hard rock ore-to-lithium chloride process. The company owns the Pontax spodumene and Wilcox brine lithium properties in the James Bay region in Quebec, and southeastern Arizona.

According to the company’s press release:

On January 14, 2014, Stria announced its plans to introduce proprietary, on-site processing technologies that produce high purity lithium chloride directly from spodumene ore on an environmentally sustainable basis.
The potential benefits of the technologies is that they require less controls; less chemistry via the recycling of chemicals; require less energy due to energy recycling; reduce capital costs from the construction of smaller, compact processing facilities, and; the combination of a simple process and compact design enable easy automation.

Stria President and Chief Operating Officer Julien Davy commented:

“Stria is a technology lithium property developer with an eye to building a competitive advantage in an established global market by focusing on the introduction of cost-mitigating, upstream, environmentally sustainable processing capabilities. With the proof of principle phase completed, we have commenced our Phase 2 optimization of kinetics and recovery testing of our spodumene ore-to-lithium chloride process.

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