TRU Presentation Lithium Supply & Markets IM Conference Santiago 2009
TRU Group Inc, Tucson and Toronto September 20, 2008 announces that TRU President Edward R. Anderson will be presenting a paper at the Lithium Supply & Markets 2009 IM Conference January 26, 2009 Santiago Chile lithium forecast 2020

 

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Sustainable lithium supplies through 2020 in the face of sustainable market growth

by Edward R Anderson

B.Sc.(Hons)., Dpl.(Marketing Research)., MBA., FCIArb

President, TRU Group Inc

 Edward Anderson, President, TRU Group Inc., USA Canada

This presentation will be a summary of a major 2008 TRU Group Inc assignment for Mitsubishi Corporation. The report titled "Lithium Demand-Supply Outlook through 2020" is a unique in-depth analysis of the underlying determining technologies and applications sustaining both supply and demand through 2020. Issues discussed in the presentation will include– lithium Santiago Chile conference 2009

◘ the study’s “sustainability” approach and original data estimation methods lithium chloride production

◘ a different view of lithium in batteries and other major end-uses of lithium carbonate lithium hydroxide

◘ supply technology and drivers of sustainable annual lithium production costs and prices for lithium global

◘ past-vs-future for the global industry: is there really much difference? Li market supply demand balance li

◘ will and if so when, will the industry face significant disruption through 2020 long range forecast stud

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TRU President Edward Anderson commented that “a presentation of this type is very unusual for us because all of our work is client confidential. However, Mitsubishi Corporation who commissioned the assignment, has authorized TRU to release some of the material”. The techno-economic analysis and supply-demand forecast is a major in-depth assignment conducted by the TRU Lithium Team made up of the worlds top technical experts on lithium production and extraction on the supply side, as well as our highly specialized industry analysts in batteries, electric vehicles, lubricants, glass/glazing/ceramics, air conditioning, pharmaceuticals, polymers, metal alloy, and other lithium applications, on the demand side. Impacts of recent advances in lithium extraction technology (for example, in selective ion adsorption, electrodialysis, and nanofiltration) are considered.  Our lithium estimates and forecast are our own: Attendees of the conference will get quite a different perspective of the lithium industry than we have seen published to this point. TRU will be updating our existing lithium industry model projections for the presentation to take into account the most recent events on the supply side - for example developments at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia and  Lake Taijnar in China - and also adjust our demand side projections to reflect the impact the global economic recession will have on lithium consumption. leading lithium consultants experts market research lithium study report free outlook battery electric vehicle EV  experts consultancy forecast projection consumption prices per gram trade export advanced batteries  

Presentation on Day Two: Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 5:25 pm

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LITHIUM SUPPLY & MARKETS 2009 INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CONFERENCE INFORMATION

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Interest and demand in lithium minerals has rocketed, driven by the increased importance and production of lithium-ion batteries as the next generation power source. In addition to the booming battery market, lithium's traditional staple markets including ceramics, glass, aluminium, pharmaceuticals, and polymers remain solid. LSM09, a two day event in Chile, the heart of global lithium production, will put the supply of lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, and lithium hydroxide under the spot light by examining

  • Present raw material supply

  • New raw material sources

  • Lithium processing & logistics

  • The markets driving demand

  • Power sources with particular focus on lithium-ion battery revolution

  • Ceramics & glass

There will be an industry tour of SQM’s and Chemetall’s lithium operations in the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile.

 

Confirmed speakers

  • Patricio de Solminihac, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, SQM SA, Chile

  • Dr Steffen Haber, President Lithium, Chemetall GmbH, Germany

  • Jon Evans, Division Manager, FMC Lithium Corporation, USA

  • David Miller, General Manager Strategic Development, Talison Minerals Pty Ltd, Australia

  • Robert Baylis, Senior Research Associate, Roskill Information Services Ltd, UK

  • Wang Ping, Manager, Chengdu Tianqi Industry Group Co. Ltd, China

  • Edward R. Anderson, President, TRU Group Inc - Lithium Consultants, USA-Canada

  • Prof Dr Marrtin Winter, Institute for Physical chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany

  • Ted Miller, Senior Manager, Energy Storage Strategy and Research, Ford Motor Company, USA

  • Luis Alberto Echazu, Minister of Mining and Metallurgy, Bolivia

  • Guillermo Roelants du Vivier and Saul Villegas, Director, Direcciόn de Evaporíticos de Bolivia, COMIBOL, Bolivia

  • Jay Chmelauskas, President, Western Lithium Corporation, USA

  • Ilias Belharouak, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

  • Dr Carlos Sorentino, Director of Technical Services, Rincon Lithium Ltd, Chile

  • Judy Baker, President, Black Pearl Minerals Consolidated Inc., USA

Lithium Supply & Markets 2009 Agenda

Sheraton Santiago Hotel & Convention Centre
Santiago, Chile 26 January 2009 - 28 January 2009

 

Day One: Monday 26 January 2009

Arrival and Evening Welcome Reception

 

Day Two: Tuesday 27 January 2009  

08.45 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS: What’s so special about lithium?

Gerry Clarke, Consultant Editor, Industrial Minerals, UK

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

09.05 Lithium resources – are they adequate?

Keith Evans, Independent, USA

 

FOCUS ON ESTABLISHED LITHIUM PRODUCERS & MARKETS

09.40 SQM lithium resources and view of the lithium industry

Patricio de Solminihac, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, SQM S.A., Chile

 

10.15-10.45 REFRESHMENT BREAK

 

10.45 Talison and the role of minerals in the lithium industry

David Miller, General Manager Strategic Development, Talison Minerals Pty Ltd, Australia

 

11.20 Batch solutions to reduce energy demand and carbon footprint in glassmaking

Don Hains, Hains Technology Associates, and Ian London, Vice President Corporate Development, Avalon Ventures Ltd, and Charles Merivale, Sr Vice President, Amalgamet Canada Ltd, Canada

 

11.55 Tianqi’s lithium chemicals activities and its markets in China

Wang Ping, Manager, Chengdu Tianqi Industry Group Co. Ltd, China

 

12.30-13.30 LUNCH

 

13.30 Powerful lithium compounds for recent and future markets

Steffen Haber, President Lithium, Chemetall GmbH, Germany

 

14.05 FMC: The global lithium company

George Sandor, Global Marketing Director, FMC Lithium Corporation, USA

 

FOCUS ON THE AUTOMOTIVE CHALLENGE

14.40 Automotive requirements for lithium batteries

Ted Miller, Senior Manager, Energy Storage Strategy and Research, Ford Motor Company, USA

 

15.15-15.45 REFRESHMENT BREAK

 

15.45 Is the lithium ion battery mature enough for electric vehicles?

An analysis from the materials science point of view

Prof. Dr. Martin Winter, Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany

 

16.20 Advanced lithium-ion battery technologies for HEVs and PHEVs: What’s next?

Ilias Belharouak, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

 

17.25 Sustainable lithium supplies through 2020 in the face of sustainable market growth

Edward R. Anderson, President, TRU Group Inc, USA-Canada

 

17.30 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS: Interesting times for lithium – here to stay?

Gerry Clarke, Consultant Editor, Industrial Minerals, UK

 

18.00 CLOSE OF DAY TWO

 

 

Day Three: Wednesday 28 January 2009

08.45 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS: Interesting times for lithium – here to stay?

Gerry Clarke, Consultant Editor, Industrial Minerals, UK

 

FOCUS ON NEW & EMERGING LITHIUM PRODUCERS AND RESOURCES

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

09.00 From Zhejiang to Zabuye: China’s mountainous path to a self-sufficient, integrated, lithium industry

Robert Baylis, Senior Research Associate, Roskill Information Services Ltd, UK

 

09.35 Geology and Metallogeny of lithium in Salar del Rincon, Salta, Argentina

Dr Carlos Sorentino, Director of Technical Services, Rincon Lithium Ltd, Argentina; Ricardo Alonso, Independent Researcher, CONICET and Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Salta; and Phillip Thomas, Managing Director, Rincon Lithium Ltd, Argentina

 

10.05 Treatment of natural brine and concentration by solar evaporation to obtain crude lithium carbonate

Dr Daniel Galli, Maria de las Mercedes Otaiza, Phillip Thomas, Managing Director, and Dr Carlos Sorentino, Director of Technical Services, Rincon Lithium Ltd

 

10.35-11.05 REFRESHMENT BREAK

 

11.05 Lithium from hectorite: a new source.

Jay Chmelauskas, President, Western Lithium Corporation, USA

 

11.40 Lithium from jadarite: an entirely new mineral source from Serbia

Bob Kellie, Chief Geologist, Industrial Minerals, Rio Tinto Exploration, Salt Lake City, USA

 

12.15 Lithium resource developments – the Black Pearl Minerals strategy

Judy Baker, President, Black Pearl Minerals Consolidated Inc., Canada

 

12.50-14.00 LUNCH

 

14.00 Bolivian government’s initiative of industrialization of the Salar de Uyuni

Luis Alberto Echazu, Minister, Ministry of Mining and Metallurgy, Government of Bolivia

 

14.30 Uyuni: reserves and technological perspectives

Guillermo Roelants du Vivier, General Adviser, and Saul Villegas Requis, Head of Lithium Development, Direcciόn de Evaporíticos de Bolivia, COMIBOL, Bolivia

 

15.00-15.30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

15.30 Can we take the inauguration of the lithium era for granted?

Juan Carlos Zuleta, Lithium Economics Analyst, Bolivia

 

16.05 An alternate view: Is there really just one path to the electrification of vehicles with a lithium-ion technology, and, even if so, is that the end game for electrification?

Jack Lifton, Independent Consultant, USA

 

16.40 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS: Where is lithium going from here?

Gerry Clarke, Consultant Editor, Industrial Minerals, UK

 

16.50 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE & DEPART FOR INDUSTRY TOUR

 

Day Four: Thursday 29 January 2009

Tour of Salar de Atacama extraction facilities of SQM and Chemetall

 

Day Five: Friday 30 January 2009

Tour of brines processing operations of SQM & Chemetall. Return flight to Santiago

 

LA PAZ - Bolivia is moving ahead with plans to tap potentially huge lithium reserves at Uyuni, the world's biggest salt lake and one of the country's top tourist attractions, as demand for lithium-ion batteries surge.  Stretched between distant Andean peaks like a shimmering white carpet, the Uyuni salt lake is home to pink flamingos, 1,000-year-old cacti, rare hummingbirds and hotels built entirely from blocks of salt. The lake may also hold one of the world's biggest deposits of lithium, and the government is investing $6 million in a pilot plant to help it figure out the best way to mine the soft alkali metal used in rechargeable batteries.  A pilot plant currently under construction in Uyuni, which is some 12,100 feet (3,700 meters) high in the Andes, might lead to the construction of a $250 million lithium facility, mining director Freddy Beltran told Reuters late on Friday. Beltran said the extraction of lithium from Uyuni should have only minimal environmental impact, but activists are likely to raise concerns about the plan. Leftist President Evo Morales laid the cornerstone of the pilot plant in May this year, which is scheduled to come on stream before the end of 2009.

Lithium batteries are used to power laptops, hybrid vehicles and cell phones, and demand could rocket if carmakers develop electric cars on a big scale.  The mining ministry says Uyuni, in the central Potosi region, holds at least 9 million tonnes of lithium.  Beltran said the progress of the plan will depend on the final investment, the success of the pilot project and demand for lithium products.

"We think we need an investment of approximately $250 million for the industrial plant. We are going to produce some 2,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate (per year), but that will depend."

Beltran said that a number of mining companies, chiefly France's Bollore and Japan's Mitsubishi and Sumitomo are pushing for contracts to set up lithium plants in Uyuni.  The companies want to mine lithium and export it as a raw material, said Beltran, whereas the Bolivian government wants to produce lithium hydroxide, lithium chloride, metallic lithium and even batteries in the Andean country so they can generate jobs and maximize revenue from the mineral. Beltran said the government is in talks but not yet near reaching an agreement with any of the companies and that they need to "advance" their proposals if they want to tap into Uyuni's lithium reserves.  "Maybe the state could have (at some point) the capacity to invest the $250 million to build the plant," said Beltran.

Argentina, Chile and Bolivia are thought to have most of the world's lithium deposits.  (Reporting by Eduardo Garcia; editing by Pav Jordan and Jim Marshall)

Story by Eduardo Garcia Advanced Automotive Battery and EC Capacitor Conference to be held in Long Beach, California, June 8-12, 2009. Paper topics include: Lithium resources – are they adequate? SQM lithium resources and view of the lithium industry Powerful lithium compounds for recent and future markets FMC: The global lithium company Talison and the role of minerals in the lithium industry From Zhejiang to Zabuye: China’s mountainous path to a self-sufficient, integrated, lithium industry Tianqi’s lithium chemicals activities and its markets in China Lithium in interesting times – here to stay? Sustainable lithium supplies through 2020 in the face of sustainable market growth Is the lithium ion battery mature enough for electric vehicles? An analysis from the materials science point of view Automotive requirements for lithium batteries Bolivian government’s initiative of industrialization of the Salar de Uyuni Uyuni: reserves and technological perspectives Lithium from hectorite: A new source New developments in the production of lithium from brines Lithium resource developments – the Black Pearl Minerals strategy Can we take the inauguration of the lithium era for granted? Where is lithium going from here?