# RecycLiCo Achieves Over 99% Lithium Extraction from LFP Battery Cathode Materials

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-achieves-over-99-lithium-extraction-from-lfp-battery-cathode-materials--d69d259b-c359-4b40-b71a-4400bf2bab98

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/AMY/news/7959804995610757/recyclico-achieves-over-99-lithium-extraction-from-lfp-battery-cathode-materials

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2022-08-24T08:30:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: American Manganese Inc.

- Ticker: AMY

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: British Columbia

- Primary commodity: Lithium

- Secondary commodities: Nickel, Manganese, Cobalt

- Document categories: Metallurgy

- Extracted: 2026-09-07 14:24:10 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.80 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

RecycLiCo \(American Manganese Inc.\) has achieved over 99% lithium recovery from LFP battery cathode materials during bench-scale metallurgical testing. This expands their proven extraction capabilities from NMC, LMO, and LCO chemistries to include the growing LFP market.

Reasoning: Achieving >99% lithium recovery from LFP cathode materials is a significant technical milestone for the company's recycling technology.

- Positive factor: High lithium recovery \(>99%\)

- Positive factor: Expansion into LFP chemistry

- Positive factor: Bench-scale success

- Negative factor: Bench-scale results may not scale linearly to commercial production

Facts used in scoring: 1

## Classification and evidence

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: Lithium recovery achieved is over 99%, which is exceptional for bench-scale testing.

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% lithium recovery

**Bench Scale Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Only preliminary bench tests completed — no locked-cycle or pilot work.

Why it applies: The reported recovery was achieved during bench-scale tests, not pilot or commercial scale.

Evidence · text

> during bench-scale tests

**Mill Route**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Processing via mill or concentrator \(CIL, CIP, tank leach, flotation\).

Why it applies: the document describes a mill\_cil route \("CIL"\)

**Single Domain Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Testing limited to one composite or domain — representativeness not established.

Why it applies: only one composite was tested

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 1. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Metallurgical Results (1)

### bench scale

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RecycLiCo Battery Materials · lithium

#### Identity

- Project: RecycLiCo Battery Materials
- Commodity: lithium
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: AMY

#### Test Work

- Program Status: preliminary
- Test Type: bench scale
- Processing Route: hydrometallurgical process
- Sample: LFP \(lithium iron phosphate\) battery cathode materials

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 99 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Kemetco Research Inc.

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Recovery exceeds the exceptional threshold for lithium in a bench-scale setting.

- Positive factor: Exceptional recovery rate \(>99%\)

- Negative factor: Bench-scale testing only

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% lithium recovery from LFP \(lithium iron phosphate\) battery cathode materials during bench-scale tests

#### Tags used in scoring

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: 99% is at or above the exceptional band \(80%\)

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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