Recharge Resources Ltd. reported that the Ekosolve Pilot Plant has produced Lithium Chloride salt (LiCl) to a purity of over 99% processed from brines sampled from the company's 2022 drill program at the Pocitos 1 Lithium Brine Project located near Pocitos township in Salta Province, Argentina. Testing of efficiency for separating and purifying lithium and the removal of cations was conducted, with boron, calcium, potassium, and magnesium extracted to the solvents and sodium stripped into the brine. As previously announced Ekosolve Lithium Solvent Exchange Extraction process has been able to extract 94.9% of the lithium (Li) from the brines provided from the company's 2022 DDH3 drill program.

The brines were processed at the Ekosolve pilot plant using the Ekosolve 10 stage extraction, washing and stripping process to produce lithium chloride, as contemplated as an end product under the offtake LOI between Recharge and Richlink Capital Pty Ltd. (Richlink) and its client to provide between 10,000- 20,000 tonnes of LiCl per year (the Proposed Supply Transaction). This study and process was a pre-engineering step for Ekosolve Extraction performance in consideration for full sized plant scale-up of 10,000-20,000 tonner per year Ekosolve Lithium Brine Extraction plant implementation at the Pocitos project, under the company's technology licensing agreement announced on September 27, 2022. The next step is to further process the lithium chloride to produce and test lithium carbonate from the Pocitos brines.