— TECHNOLOGY
Hub & Spoke: a smarter architecture for lithium production.
Most lithium projects are designed as one enormous central plant. NeoLithica’s development model distributes extraction instead — and that single decision changes the risk profile of the entire project.
— THE IDEA
Many small plants, one finishing facility.
Extraction happens in modular plants — the Spokes — sited close to the wells that produce the brine. Concentrate travels to a single Hub, where it is refined into battery-grade lithium carbonate.
— WHY IT MATTERS
Five consequences of not building one big plant.
— SIDE BY SIDE
Two ways to build the same resource.
A qualitative comparison of the two development architectures.
This comparison is qualitative and describes design intent. It is not an engineering study, a capital cost estimate, or an economic assessment, and no such study has been completed on either architecture.
— THE OTHER HALF
This is the architecture.
The chemistry is separate.
Hub & Spoke describes how production is arranged. What happens inside each Spoke — ion-exchange direct lithium extraction, and the pilot work that tested it on NeoLithica’s own brine at 97% average lithium recovery — is covered separately.
Where this sits in the plan
A field demonstration pilot on continuously produced brine is the next required step. It is what converts pilot recovery data into a commercial design basis for the first Spoke.
Our Development Plan