Chris Broadbent is Research Director at Wardell Armstrong International Ltd located in their London Office. He has worked in academic research (Aston and Birmingham Universities), Industrial Research (Rio Tinto in Avonmouth, working on Process Improvements to the lead-zinc blast furnace and Billiton-Shell in the Netherlands on FeNi research and coal gasification slag chemistry). In 1994 he joined Wardell Armstrong and has managed major mining and metallurgical projects throughout the World. In January 2015 he became coordinator of the H2020 Flexible and Mobile Economical Processing Project (FAME).
Europe’s contribution to Lithium Production. THE FAME Project – valorisation of domestic lithium resources through flexible and mobile processing
The FAME (H2020) project commenced in January 2015. It is concerned with developing flexible and mobile mineral processing solutions to enable exploitation of European skarn, greisen and pegmatite ore bodies. 6 such ore bodies used as reference ores, three of which (Keliber, Goncalo and Cinovec) contain appreciable amounts of lithium contained in their mica's or spodumene. This talk describes progress made within FAME to produce commercially viable Li concentrates.