Ann: Orocobre Limited - 2019 Half-Year Financial Results, page-13

Early days but he seems to have got a good grasp quite quickly. He passed one key test - he queried the sense of the crystallisers (higher opex) and (hallelujah) he suggested deeper brine storage at the end of the process. Exactly what I have been thinking for some long time now - they can't go beyond 0.7% concentration without suffering increased precipitation of lithium so they don't always want increased area in this part of the process, but increased depth is an obvious defence against dilution and greater buffer between the variable part of the process (weather) and the steady state process. Go through the harvest ponds and transfer to a deep storage pond before processing...