The United Downs Deep Geothermal Power (UDDGP) project has found some of the world’s highest grades of lithium and best overall qualities from preliminary sampling in deep geothermal waters in Cornwall. Further sampling is planned before work begins on designing and building a lithium extraction pilot plant. The project, involving Cornish Lithium in collaboration with […]
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Cornish Lithium-GEL £4m plant to receive public funds
Cornish Lithium’s collaboration with Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) will receive government funding for a £4 million geothermal recovery plant near Redruth in Cornwall. INVESTMENT The company said that the project would be Europe’s first geothermal lithium recovery pilot plant at GEL’s United Downs Deep Geothermal project (UDDGP). The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise […]
Cornish Lithium attracts further shareholder funding
Cornish Lithium (CLi) has raised more than £826,000 from shareholders, allowing it to continue exploration for lithium at United Downs mines in central Cornwall. The company is mining for lithium in geothermal waters and in hard rock, and funds raised will add to the successful drilling programmes that concluded earlier this year. CLi plans further phases […]
Cornish Lithium to extend drilling at United Downs
Cornish Lithium Ltd said it wanted to drill more holes after finding samples of lithium as well as copper and tin at United Down mines in Cornwall. COPPER-TIN OCCURRENCES The company drilled two large holes from which samples tested to reveal micas of lithium from water in the mines. Founder and chief executive Jeremy Wrathall […]
Cornish Lithium finds new mineral zone at United Downs
Cornish Lithium has found a new zone of lithium in its first drillhole at United Downs within the historic copper and tin mining district of central Cornwall. STRUCTURES The company discovered more structures than expected after drilling down farther than the planned 800m to 1.1km. Founder and chief executive Jeremy Wrathall, who aims to build […]