Century Lithium announces MOU with Orica for sodium hydroxide offtake agreement [Video]

Century Lithium CEO Bill Willoughby joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share significant progress with Proactive, revealing the company has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Orica Specialty Mining Chemicals. The MOU sets the groundwork for a formal multiyear offtake agreement, enabling Orica to purchase sodium hydroxide from Century Lithium’s Angel Island project near Silver Peak, Nevada.

Orica, a global leader in mining and infrastructure solutions, is also a key manufacturer and supplier of specialty mining chemicals to Nevada’s mining sector. This collaboration strengthens Century Lithium’s integration into the region’s mining ecosystem.

Willoughby elaborated on the company’s innovative and patent-pending process for extracting lithium from the claystone at Angel Island. The method combines chloride leaching with direct lithium extraction, utilizing salt—either as solid sodium chloride or saline brine—to produce reagents for leaching and pH control. Beyond lithium carbonate as the primary product, the process generates surplus sodium …