About us

Perth-based Lithium Australia NL (‘LIT’) aims to ensure an ethical and sustainable supply of components to the battery industry worldwide, enhancing energy security and creating a circular battery economy in the process.

To that end, LIT has developed proprietary extraction technologies – including SiLeach^® and LieNA^® – for the conversion of all lithium silicates (including mine waste), and of unused fines from spodumene processing, to lithium chemicals.

From those chemicals LIT plans to produce advanced materials for the global battery industry and for stationary energy storage systems within Australia.

The recycling of spent batteries is intrinsic to this plan. LIT takes the view that sustainability equates to viability with respect to both the manufacture and disposal of lithium-ion batteries (‘LIBs’) and that spent LIBs may ultimately prove the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly source of the so-called ‘energy metals’ – including lithium and cobalt.

In terms of raw materials, LIT has free-carried interests of 20-30% in a number of joint ventures for the exploration of lithium, as well as base and precious metals. LIT also retains an equity interest in a number of the public companies that are managing those joint ventures.

LIT’s plans to create a circular battery economy, then, include the following.

• Energy-efficient recovery of lithium from mine waste to create primary battery chemicals.
• Conversion of those primary battery chemicals into high-spec cathode materials via VSPC Ltd.
• Recycling of energy metals from spent LIBs and alkaline batteries, via Envirostream Australia Pty Ltd and VSPC Ltd.

In summary, LIT, by uniting resources and innovation, seeks to vertically integrate lithium extraction, processing and recycling in ways that are both ethical and sustainable.