http://www.moselletechnologies.com/index.php/cost-reduction

This is just one of the "new extraction technologies" out there being developed.  Another Canadian Small Cap Lithium Junior partnered up with Moselle back earlier this year:  Dajin Resources

Dajin is really a small time operation and they are a TRUE penny stock.. not doing well today at all.  I think their situation just highlights how fortunate LAC is to have a deep pocket Major Lithium partner in Ganfeng, however Chinese expenditures on investments ouside of China since the first of the year have declined preciptiously. This nanotechnology seems pitched for lithium brine extraction but I can't help wondering if it couldn't have applications elsewhere, specifically to the lithium clay situation at Thacker Pass.  Thacker Pass extraction is currently based on using sulfuric acid and you can't make sulfuric acid from sulfur without a lot of water.  Certainly decreasing the amount of water required and possibly eliminating or reducing the amount of sulfur required might very well reduce the extraction costs significantly.  My guess is that Moselle does not have an exclusive contract with Dajin.  I don't know much about Moselle, just what their home page and web site stipulate, but it is interesting...now is it practical and will it result in rapid adoption in the lithium mining community? 

I had an article from a Chinese newspaper that I was going to post here in support of that statement but I can't seem to find the article now.  I was going to use it to point out that Ganfeng may not be so much as a shoe in for economic support of Thacker Pass as many believe... but even so, their existing commitment at Cauchari-Olaroz is still considerable and I believe Cauchari-Olaroz, although delayed, is unstoppable and that the timing of it going into production is still fortuitous as far as the rebound of the lithium market will unfold.  Time will tell.