MetAmpere Limited
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| BVI | |
| Traded as | MetAmpere |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Metals and Mining |
| Founded 📆 | |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Roche , United Kingdom |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Andrew Smith |
| Products 📟 | Lithium |
| Revenue🤑 | NA |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 20 |
| 🌐 Website | metampere.co.uk |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
MetAmpere is a United Kingdom established business developing a lithium mining project in Cornwall.
Following two years of metallurgical process research and development, and extensive ground mapping, in the second quarter of 2019 MétAmpère successfully completed its maiden Cornwall lithium drilling programme. Six reverse circulation holes were drilled with a maximum depth of 201.5 m.[1] Hole 1 on 30 April 2019 was the first lithium exploration hole ever drilled in the United Kingdom. Broad intercepts of potentially economic lithium micas were found.[2]
MetAmpere is now planning to build an integrated lithium mine, beneficiation plant and refinery to produce 20,000 tpa of lithium carbonate - enough to support the production of 350,000 electric vehicles per year, giving UK a strategic advantage over Europe.[3]
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MetAmpere successfully drills the first lithium exploration hole in the UK.
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Large polylithionite flakes on a sample found by MetAmpere near St Austell, Cornwall.
Resource and Geology[edit]
The deposit can be classified as granite hosted lithium enrichment. The lithium enrichment is stated in hard rock lithium-mica bearing granite as well as in the large pocket or funnel-shaped post-granitic altered (kaolinised) bodies or pipes, which extend to a depth of 250 m below surface.
Mapping of the St Austell Granite identified a number of magmatic granite units, which were classified as biotite granites, lithionite granites and fluorite granites.
Generally, there is a close correlation between the whole rock lithium content and the modal per-centage of lithium mica in the St Austell granite suite. Lithium bearing mica is obviously of central interest, but more of the point of lithium content than from the niceties of nomenclature. It seems to be evident, that the lithium mineralisation is bounded on typical lithium mica minerals such as zinnwaldite.
The dark and pale brown micas in the St Austell granite show continuous range in composition from iron-rich biotite (siderophyllite) with about 0.5 % Li, through lithian biotite and zinnwaldite to ferroan lepidolite with at least 2.2 % Li and possibly to lepidolite containing around 2.5 % Li. Both, magmatic lepidolite and post-magmatic zinnwaldite, were identified in St Austell granite.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/test-success-brings-250m-cornish-16925977
- ↑ https://www.businesscornwall.co.uk/news-by-industry/manufacturing-in-cornwall/2019/09/staggeringly-good-lithium-exploration-results/
- ↑ https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2019-09-27/new-cornwall-mining-project-could-produce-enough-lithium-to-power-more-than-300-000-electric-cars-a-year/
- ↑ Manning, Hill & Manning, David (January 1987). "Multiple intrusions and pervasive hydrothermal alteration in the St Austell Granite, Cornwall". Geoscience in South-West England. 6 (4): 447–453. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
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