KENTICHA
Ta / Li
Tantalum mineral has been mined at the Kenticha Project since 1990, with mining focussed on extraction of tantalum from the weathered horizon of the serpentinite hill.
There is a lithium resource of 67.4 million tonnes at 0.73% lithium oxide, with a relatively flat laying continuous orebody that has a strike length of over 2 km.
Built up over the 27 years the Kenticha Project has been mined is a large tantalum tailings dam containing 5.4 million tonnes and a spodumene rock dump with visible spodumene. We propose to treat this during the ramp up to mining of the primary ore body.
Our objective is to establish a large, international standard mining operation, producing tantalum and lithium concentrate.
The plan is to mine and process all the valuable mineral assemblages of the pegmatite at the Kenticha Project. This includes in-country beneficiation as far along the beneficiation path as is technically and economically feasible.
We propose building a flotation plant to produce spodumene concentrate and a plant to produce 99% pure lithium carbonate/lithium hydroxide.
The product produced from these plants could be sold directly to the lithium battery market, enabling the Kenticha Project to capture more downstream value for the benefit of joint venture partners, the local community, and the Ethiopian economy.
