Mariana Minerals

“Lithium is like exactly in this position right now. And that's why we're focused on lithium.”

“That like scale jump is actually something that we think that RL and will enable with like a pretty meaningful like pace adjustment where you don't need the humans to kind of like fine tune the process conditions around a new process chemistry because the, you…”

“It's hard to get project finance on a first of a kind facility where you're demonstrating a new unit operation for the first time.”

“You know, we want to build 10 projects in 10 years. Those projects will be an increasing scale over time.”

“You want to have as strong of a technical basis before you go and have to learn all of the company building side of things. And so making sure that you're kind of like over indexing on the technical side before you go and kind of sign up for figuring out how t…”

“You have to, like, set up, you know systems that enable you to mobilize, like, core groups of teams to go after critical paths while also not letting the next decision kind of fall behind. And a lot of that is around having, you know, little SWAT teams that ar…”

“If you want to drive like process development and R&D towards thinking about it as a manufacturing type process, the best forcing function is at the end of the day, you have like the equivalent of a shift passed down, which is you say, here's what we did. Here…”

“I wouldn't go and start something until you have, like, been able to sit around a project that you have seen go end to end, and then done that multiple times. That enables you to see how, like, how much better can you get with each iteration of, like, from con…”

“Everything is like web app posted their access controls are basically gone at least internal to the company. When it comes to being able to see like the core engineering information, it does not live on a hard drive somewhere. It does not live in an email that…”

“We're making a big bet on autonomy and refineries, where we use reinforcement learning to actually remove humans from the loop in determining how refineries operate.”

“We're building a lithium refinery in Texas with the goal of building 10 projects in the next 10 years.”

“And the software space you know, a lot of the underlying optimization algorithms that we're writing for our plants, they look very, very similar to the optimization algorithms that are in dog walking apps and Uber ride optimization underwriting loans ad optimi…”