Keith Muller, CEO of Atlantic Lithium, reports significant advancements at the company’s flagship Ewoyaa lithium project in Ghana, positioning it closer to shovel-readiness.
“We’re progressing well through the permitting phase, actively engaging with local stakeholders in and around the project’s lease area.
Our inaugural Community Consultative Committee meeting in October facilitated open discussions on the project’s local benefits,” Muller states.
The project has garnered substantial support from Ghana’s local populace since the company’s inception, which persists as construction nears.
Atlantic secured a bulk customer permit for Ewoyaa’s electricity needs, projecting a considerable 30% to 50% reduction in overall power costs.
Discussions for the engineering, procurement, construction, and management contract for the primary processing plant and related infrastructure are underway.
Tender stages for procuring a mobile crusher feeding the modular dense media separation (DMS) unit and appointing a mining contractor are imminent.
Plans include diverting transmission lines crossing the project site by the second quarter of 2024 and exploring a downstream lithium conversion plant with Mincore as per the mining lease agreement.
A flotation scoping study’s completion supports the viability of processing fines and middlings through flotation, enhancing P2 finer-grained pegmatite material recovery.
Muller highlights the confirmation of a separate flotation circuit’s necessity, set to operate independently and downstream from the main DMS plant after reaching a 2.7-million-tonne annual steady-state throughput.
Work on feldspar and downstream conversion studies is progressing, concurrent with discussions on critical commercial contracts crucial for project development, expected to materialize in the coming months.
Atlantic anticipates making a final investment decision upon approval from the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency and obtaining a mine operating permit.
