{"id":14808,"date":"2026-05-13T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14808\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:46:08","slug":"anson-resources-and-posco-to-develop-dle-demo-plant-at-green-river-lithium-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14808\/","title":{"rendered":"Anson Resources and POSCO to Develop DLE Demo Plant at Green River Lithium Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boards of <a href=\"https:\/\/smallcaps.com.au\/stocks\/asx-asn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anson Resources (ASX: ASN)<\/a> and South Korean industrial group POSCO Holdings have approved the terms for a binding agreement to develop a direct lithium extraction (DLE) demonstration facility at the Green River lithium project in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The plant will extract lithium from brines produced from the Bosydaba #1 well owned by Anson at Green River.<\/p>\n<p>POSCO will be responsible for engineering, construction, operation and maintenance of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean company will pay Anson a facilitation fee of $7.2 million, while Anson will provide access to property, infrastructure, and brine supply.<\/p>\n<p>Operating Framework Established<\/p>\n<p>The board approvals establish a framework under which POSCO will operate its own non-commercial DLE demonstration plant to validate lithium extraction at continuous industrial scale.<\/p>\n<p>A definitive agreement is expected to be signed by mid-year and the plant is scheduled to start operations in 2027, with Anson and POSCO continue exploring new business co-operation opportunities in the meantime, including joint investment in Green River.<\/p>\n<p>Anson chief executive officer Bruce Richardson said the board approval demonstrated strong industry validation of Green River\u2019s low-cost lithium potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring a definitive agreement with POSCO represents a transformational step forward for Green River [that] underscores the strong technical confidence POSCO has in our asset and highlights the increasing strategic importance of domestic US lithium supply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>POSCO has said it will continue to advance the validation of its DLE technology in the US and evaluate commercialisation pathways for future lithium production.<\/p>\n<p>Adding Value to Green River<\/p>\n<p>Anson has been working hard to add value to Green River since its discovery in 2023, most recently implementing a \u201cpolishing\u201d program to reduce the minor contaminants remaining in its pure lithium chloride eluate.<\/p>\n<p>The program utilised a direct lithium extraction pilot plant owned by Koch Technology Services and is expected to result in a higher-grade final lithium carbonate product.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-2025, Anson subsidiary Blackstone Minerals shipped a two-tonne bulk sample of Green River lithium-rich brine to POSCO to assess lithium extraction efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>This formed part of its due diligence process for the planned demonstration plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boards of Anson Resources (ASX: ASN) and South Korean industrial group POSCO Holdings have approved the terms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[442],"class_list":{"0":"post-14808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-posco","8":"tag-posco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}