Lithium Tail Brine Disposal and Royalty Strategy

The Ticking Time-Bomb Problem • Bromine concentrations will inevitably decline making produced brine less valuable • Bromine itself may become less valuable • Meanwhile, royalty, indexed to inflation, increases, increasing fixed costs for producers • Complicating factor is that acreage once in a unit is always in the unit • The inevitable result: Premature abandonment of less profitable operations.

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