MVP Lithium to Use Evove’s Direct Lithium Extraction Technology in Montney in 2025

Midas Vantage Projects (MVP) Lithium Limited has received a letter of intent (LOI) from Evove Ltd outlining Evove’s commitment to commissioning MVP Lithium’s DLE plant in 2025 subject to processing brine at industrial scale on Evove’s equipment at their testing facility in the UK and on-site demonstration.MVP Lithium’s resource in the Montney Formation in Canada is a promising new source of lithium, a critical material for the rapidly growing electric vehicle and energy storage industries. With the demand for lithium expected to surge in the coming years, this partnership with Evove will position MVP Lithium at the forefront of sustainable lithium production.

The plant will produce high-purity lithium, ensuring that MVP Lithium can meet the global demand for this crucial material while maintaining a commitment to sustainability.

Evove’s uses nanofiltration membranes in the first stage of the Direct Lithium Extraction process rather than conventional adsorption techniques. The highly selective lithium membrane uses a proprietary coating to strip the raw brine of divalent ions, creating a feedstock for isolating the lithium from other salts.

Evove then proceeds to polish the brine in stage 2, with ion exchange to remove the last traces of divalents, before refining to battery-purity lithium chloride in the third stage using a specially developed ion exchange process.

This concentrates the lithium to more than 60,000ppm without reverse osmosis membranes as in many other systems.