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Scheyder: Direct lithium extraction has never worked at commercial scale
“Which has never actually worked on a commercial scale but there's a lot of money being poured into it by researchers across the globe.”
Scheyder: Western Lithium Miners Curtail Expansions as Chinese Competitors Overproduce
“We definitely see, given the current pricing dynamics that many Western lithium companies are having to curtail their expansion plans because Chinese linked rivals are increasing production or not curtailing their own production, i.e. They're operating at a lo…”
Scheyder: The Future Economy Will Maintain a Significant Petroleum Mix
“I think probably what's going to end up happening is we're going to have a bigger mix moving forward with a petroleum-based economy.”
Scheyder: China is the world's largest lithium processor
“China is, is the world's largest processor for many of these types of lithium. So we were talking about Australia and Chile earlier in the conversation. I mean, much of that lithium is, is shipped to mainland China where it's processed into a form that can be …”
Scheyder: Texas currently has no regulatory rules governing lithium extraction
“Texas, for instance, has no rules right now governing lithium extraction, which I think people just assume because Texas has a huge history in oil and gas extraction that it would also have these lithium rules, but they haven't developed them yet.”
Scheyder: Australia is the world's top lithium producer, Chile leads in brine
“Chile, as I mentioned, is the world's, one of the world's largest lithium producers and the world's largest brine producer. Australia is the world's largest lithium producer because of its large spodumine or hard rock mines.”
Scheyder: Hard rock extraction accounts for more global lithium than brine
“I mean, right now, there's definitely more lithium production in the world from hard rock than there is from brine.”