# Standard Lithium Files Positive Preliminary Economic Assessment for the High-Grade 70,000 Tonnes Per Year Franklin Project in East Texas

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/standard-lithium-files-positive-preliminary-economic-assessment-for-the-high-gra--7a3020c9-b46f-43af-ab8c-2c51679ab072

Original source: https://www.juniorminingnetwork.com/junior-miner-news/press-releases/2118-tsx-venture/sli/213220-standard-lithium-files-positive-preliminary-economic-assessment-for-the-high-grade-70-000-tonnes-per-year-franklin-project-in-east-texas.html

Publisher: jmn

Original announcement: 2026-10-20T00:36:20.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: 2026-10-20T12:31:29.668Z

Atlas analysis updated: 2026-10-20T12:31:29.668Z

- Company: Standard Lithium

- Ticker: SLI

- Exchange: TSXV

- Region: Texas, USA

- Primary commodity: Lithium

- Secondary commodities: Bromine, Potash

- Document categories: Other, Resource update

- Extracted: 2026-10-20 12:31:30 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.80 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Standard Lithium, in partnership with Equinor, has filed a positive Preliminary Economic Assessment \(PEA\) for the Franklin Project in East Texas. The PEA highlights an unlevered pre-tax NPV of $5.9 billion, an IRR of 25.7%, and an annual production capacity of up to 70,000 tonnes of battery-quality lithium carbonate.

Reasoning: The announcement of a positive PEA with high NPV and IRR for a large-scale lithium project is a significant value-driving event.

- Positive factor: High NPV of $5.9 billion

- Positive factor: Strong IRR of 25.7%

- Positive factor: Attractive lithium concentrations \(up to 562 mg/L\)

- Positive factor: Upsized Mineral Resource area by 37%

- Positive factor: Potential for co-located bromine and potash production

- Negative factor: Preliminary nature of the PEA

- Negative factor: Inferred resource status mentioned as a risk

Facts used in scoring: 4

## Classification and evidence

**PEA-Supporting**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Resource estimate prepared to support a Preliminary Economic Assessment — early-stage study.

Why it applies: The document reports the filing of a Preliminary Economic Assessment \(PEA\) for the Franklin Project.

Evidence · text

> announced today that the Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report \(the “PEA” or the “Report”\) for the Franklin project

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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