The Pabellón Project features favourable geology & environmental conditions and is within close vicinity to the Ollagüe Salar.
Lithium
Pabellón, Chile
FAVOURABLE GEOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
The Pabellón Lithium Project consists of a portfolio of 26 mineral exploration licenses with an area of 7,600 hectares located in northern Chile, Region II, near the Chile-Bolivia border and approximately 70km due south of the Ollagüe salar.
Located on the license area is the Cerro Pabellón power plant,
majority-owned and operated by ENEL, a multinational Italian utility
company. Cerro Pabellón is the only operational geothermal plant in
South America with 88MW capacity that provides direct power into
Chile’s national power grid.
During the construction of the power plant, several fluid lithium
samples were collected ranging up to 75 mg/L. Given the flow rate of
fluid at the Power Plant of 1,500 t/hour, the implied flow of lithium,
expressed as Lithium Carbonate Equivalent, is up to 5,000 t/annually.