RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant Testing Achieves 163% of Designed Leach Processing Capacity
Original announcement by tmx on
- Company
- American Manganese Inc
- Ticker
- AMY
- Exchange
- TSX
- Region
- British Columbia
- Primary commodity
- Lithium
- Secondary commodities
- Cobalt, Nickel, Manganese
- Document categories
- Metallurgy, Other
- Extracted
- 2026-09-15 10:23:44 UTC
Analysis by Minestarters Atlas
Minestarters Atlas analysis
Summary
RecycLiCo Battery Materials announced that its demonstration plant's leaching stage achieved 163% of its designed 500 kg/day processing capacity for lithium-ion battery cathode scraps. This achievement is attributed to the effectiveness of the company's patented hydrometallurgical process and operational expertise.
Reasoning: The demonstration plant's leaching stage significantly outperformed its design capacity, providing a strong de-risking signal for the commercialization of their battery recycling technology.
Positive factors
- Exceeded designed processing capacity (163%)
- Demonstrates scalability of patented hydrometallurgical process
- Optimized parameters provide data for commercial plant design
Facts used in scoring: 1
Classification and evidence
Mill Routeneutral
Processing via mill or concentrator (CIL, CIP, tank leach, flotation).
Why it applies: The process is described as a hydrometallurgical leaching process.
Evidence · text
“patented, closed-loop hydrometallurgical process”
Single Domain Onlynegative
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)
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Identity
- Project
- RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant
- Commodity
- lithium
- Region
- canada_bc
- Reported Region
- British Columbia
- Ticker
- AMY
Test Work
- Program Status
- detailed
- Test Type
- leach
- Processing Route
- hydrometallurgical process
- Sample
- leach section of demonstration plant testing lithium-ion battery cathode scraps
Lab
- Laboratory
- Kemetco Research Inc.
Review
- Needs Review
- No
- Historical
- No
Dates
- Event date
- 2022-08-16T00:00:00.000Z
Reasoning: The leaching stage demonstrated throughput significantly higher than the design specification.
Positive factors
- Achieved 163% of designed 500 kg/day capacity
Evidence · text
“leach section of its technology defining demonstration plant project has achieved 163% of the demonstration plant's designed processing capacity of 500 kg/day”
How Atlas produces this analysis
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