Angel Island Mine
The Angel Island Mine is in Esmeralda County, in west-central Nevada, USA, immediately east of Albemarle's mine site, North America's only lithium brine operation. Exploration and development by Century Lithium led to the discovery of an extensive resource of lithium-bearing claystone, immediately adjacent to the lithium brine basin. The lithium resource is exposed at surface, sheltered from erosion by Angel Island, an outcrop of Cambrian metavolcanic and clastic rocks, protruding through the Pliocene lakebed sediments.
The Angel Island Mine is one of the few advanced lithium projects in development in the United States to provide an end-to-end process to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate.
At present the Company is in the permitting stage for a three-phase feasibility-level production plan expected to yield an average of 34,000 tonnes per year of battery grade lithium carbonate over a 40-year mine-life with the goal of becoming a domestic producer of lithium for the growing electric vehicle and battery storage market.
