Vulcan Energy Resources – Research permit granted on geothermal lithium extraction in Italy.
Lake Bracciano, Bracciano, Italy (supply: Grant-o , public area, commons/ wikimedia)
A analysis permit has been granted for a subsidiary of Vulcan Energy Resources to discover the choice to extract Lithium from geothermal brine in Italy.
In a launch this morning, Australian/ German Vulcan Energy Resources stories that its subsidiary Vulcan Energy Italy Pty Ltd has been granted a brand new Research Permit in Italy, named “Cesano” situated 20 km NNW of Rome in Italy.
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The Cesano Permit extends over an space of 11.5 km2 and consists of an space the place a single geothermal properly yielded two “hot brine” samples that contained excessive common lithium-in-brine historic (1976) grades of 350 and 380 mg/l Li.
Vulcan considers the world to have potential for sustainable lithium battery chemical substances improvement in line with its Zero Carbon Lithium (TM) enterprise, given the recorded excessive warmth and lithium grades inside the brine, and inspiring stream charges.
Vulcan’s in-house geological crew in Germany will likely be collaborating with Italian geologists and native stakeholders to collate and assess historic information, confirm the lithium content material and assess the brine for potential lithium challenge improvement.
If profitable, the Cesano Project might present a supply of strategic, sustainable lithium in Italy for Europe’s battery and automotive market, and turn out to be a doable future additive to Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium (TM) enterprise.
Dr. Francis Wedin, Vulcan’s Managing Director commented:
After an in depth geological assessment, we have now recognized an space in Italy with optimistic stream charge, historic lithium grade and reservoir temperature indications that could possibly be conducive to Vulcan’s distinctive methodology of utilizing renewable warmth to drive lithium processing, with web zero carbon footprint, for the European electrical car market.
“We will likely be working with native companions to determine the potential of the world in extra element, and verify subsequent steps.“
The Cesano Research Permit is situated inside the Cesano geothermal area, which was found in 1974, and is roughly 20km NNW of the Capital City of Rome. During 1975, a “hot brine” was found in a single geothermal properly (Cesano 1) at a depth of roughly 1,390 m under floor by ENEL. Two scorching brine samples yielded historic lithium contents of 350 and 380 mg/L Li in filtered and unfiltered brine (Calamai et al, 1976).
The historic outcomes signify one of many highest international lithium grades recorded in a confined aquifer geothermal brine setting. The Cesano geothermal area happens inside the Monti Sabatini volcanic area.
Several deep wells (1,400- 3,000m) had been traditionally drilled in the geothermal area and the deep brine has but to be examined, or publicly documented, for his or her lithium content material.
The Baccano caldera was shaped over a carbonate structural excessive with Quaternary volcanic cowl, on the within of a big graben that developed from the Upper Miocene, and is characterised by a powerful thermal anomaly (Funiciello et al, 1979).
The Cesano 1 properly was drilled on the southern border of the Baccano caldera, in correlation with a gravity excessive anomaly and a thermo-metamorphic halo in the Lower Jurassic carbonate rocks of the Umbria-Marche sedimentary basin (Petracchini et al., 2015).
For additional particulars see the complete launch linked under.
Research permit granted on geothermal lithium extraction in Italy News & More, January 24, 2022
