How good is AGY holding up today!
Been invested/trading since 2018.
Is it finally time for the market to wake-up to this share?
Maybe it will really take off when in 2024/2025 other hopefuls
- start slipping on times
- don't deliver a high percentage of BG lithium from their production capacity.
- actual processing costs are higher than anticipated on input of
- energy
- water
- direct extraction material durability
Then it will start dawning on investors that lithium processing is not digging a hole in the ground.....and there is only so many people in the world with experience and expertise.
As Burba mused.... "what works in the lab doesn't work at scale". He should know.
If I find the time I will post about the history of lithium extraction with Dr. John Burba, Du Pont/Dow Chemical, patents, Pablo Alurralde and how they commissioned FMC Fenix project at Hombre Muerto in ~1998.
Dr. John Burba (
god father of lithium ) refers to this project as "DLE" version 1 by the way ( sorption in this case ) and is really the only western
commercial operation running any kind of "DLE" tech.
Pablo improved this process and filed a patent in ~2008 from what I remember.
By the by, Vulcan will also be using sorption , because it is proven at commercial scale.
Very happy that Vulcan has renamed the "DLE" plant to the sorption demo plant.
The initial extraction using sorption/ion exchange etc is only 1 step in the lithium processing flowsheet - people don't get this.
They think "DLE" is a technology...haha.
By the by, Vulcan is getting their sorption materials from none other than Du Pont last time I checked.... it's a small world.
And in this small world of limited people with practical experience and expertise we have Pablo in AGY.
And with people like Pablo and Jerko with a lot of skin in the game we can be sure they are aligned to shareholders in their motivations!
Wish I had more cash to by more AGY....
No debt.
2000tpa Commercial production phase on time and budged.
Will be
"printing money" soon,
Next up
Resource expansion drilling.
10,000 tpa approvals/funding.
Tonopah wild card hanging in the wing ;-)
How good would it be to define a resource in US within the next few months?
From memory if we define a resource of 1Mt OR start commercial production we have to pay an additional $500k.
Which means 1Mt is a reasonable if optimistic number for the Tonopah claims - otherwise why have that in the agreement.
anywho, some ramblings from a happy holder.