The document referred to is officially titled:  "Draft Environmental Impact Statement Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project" and is dated 2018.

 

Just a few of the bullet points are listed below along with a few comments about other items included in the report:

 

Construction and operation of an attrition scrubbing process to separate the lithium-rich fine clay from the coarse low-grade material (coarse gangue);

 

Construction and operation of lithium processing facilities designed to produce lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide monohydrate, lithium sulfide, lithium metal, and solid-state lithium batteries; 

 

Construction of raw water supply facilities including two supply wells (Quinn Production Well and Quinn Backup Well), two booster pump stations, a water pump tank station, and underground water pipeline to the process plant; Construction of a seven mile 25-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line from a new substation installed in the process plant area to the raw water supply facilities to the east, and a two-mile power transmission line to new mine area substations to the west

 

Pages 9-14 include an extensive analysis of the surface and underground water supply situation along with a chemical analysis of the springs in the area.  The NRV standards are exceeded by local springs for arsenic, aluminum, antimony, iron and magnesium.

 

Pages 42-52 includes an extensive description, based on information available in 2018, of the processing of the lithium clay into lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide and includes information on amounts of those two main products expected to be produced ( packaged in bulk bags of 1,000 Kilograms each ) along with the same information about the multiple by-products resulting from the anticipated process. 

 

 Keep in mind that this information was formulated back in 2018 and it is expected that since then the Processing Lab in Reno has contributed much updated information that will modify the final process chosen by LAC when it goes into production.  It is those modifications that I would like to know more about, but the preliminary processing steps are extensively documented in this 2018 document.