Poseidon Nickel Ltd (ASX:POS) has plans to use its existing plant and infrastructure to become the first hard rock lithium producer in the Lake Johnston region of Western Australia.The company has entered into an agreement with Kidman Resources Ltd (ASX:KDR) to process Kidman’s Mt Holland lithium ore at Poseidon’s Lake Johnston nickel plant.This envisages processing lithium hosted spodumene pegmatites from Mt Holland and a step towards creating Lake Johnston as the central lithium processing hub.Kidman will define a maiden lithium resource estimation and will fast track testwork on Mt Holland composite samples.The preliminary engineering design for processing lithium pegmatites at the 1.5 million tonnes per annum concentrator is being undertaken to support the co-processing of both nickel and lithium ores…

Source: Poseidon Nickel Ltd aims for lithium processing hub at Lake Johnston – Proactiveinvestors (AU)