RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant Testing Achieves Over 99% Leach Extraction of Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Manganese from Lithium-ion Battery Production Scrap
Original announcement by tmx on
- Company
- American Manganese Inc
- Ticker
- AMY
- Exchange
- TSX
- Region
- British Columbia
- Primary commodity
- Lithium
- Secondary commodities
- Nickel, Cobalt, Manganese
- Document categories
- Metallurgy
- Extracted
- 2026-08-22 23:01:51 UTC
Analysis by Minestarters Atlas
Minestarters Atlas analysis
Summary
RecycLiCo Battery Materials announced that its demonstration plant leach testing achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese from battery production scrap. The testing involved several metric tons of scrap to optimize commercial plant design.
Reasoning: Achieving >99% extraction across four key battery metals at demonstration plant scale is a significant technical milestone for the company's patented hydrometallurgical process.
Positive factors
- exceptional recovery rates
- demonstration plant scale
- multiple metal extraction
Facts used in scoring: 4
Classification and evidence
High Recoverypositive
Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.
Why it applies: Achieved over 99% extraction for lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese.
Evidence · text
“achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese”
Extracted facts
Stored fact records: 4. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.
Metallurgical Results (4)
leachlithiumRecovery: 99 %View all detailsHide details
Identity
- Commodity
- lithium
- Ticker
- AMY
Test Work
- Program Status
- detailed
- Test Type
- leach
- Processing Route
- hydrometallurgical process
- Sample
- lithium-ion battery production scrap
Recovery
- Recovery
- 99 %
- Recovery Basis
- actual_test
Review
- Needs Review
- No
- Historical
- No
Dates
- Event date
- 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Reasoning: Recovery exceeds 99% threshold for lithium.
Positive factors
- exceptional recovery
Evidence · text
“achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese”
leachnickelRecovery: 99 %View all detailsHide details
Identity
- Commodity
- nickel
- Ticker
- AMY
Test Work
- Program Status
- detailed
- Test Type
- leach
- Processing Route
- hydrometallurgical process
- Sample
- lithium-ion battery production scrap
Recovery
- Recovery
- 99 %
- Recovery Basis
- actual_test
Review
- Needs Review
- No
- Historical
- No
Dates
- Event date
- 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Reasoning: Recovery exceeds 99% threshold for nickel.
Positive factors
- exceptional recovery
Evidence · text
“achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese”
leachcobaltRecovery: 99 %View all detailsHide details
Identity
- Commodity
- cobalt
- Ticker
- AMY
Test Work
- Program Status
- detailed
- Test Type
- leach
- Processing Route
- hydrometallurgical process
- Sample
- lithium-ion battery production scrap
Recovery
- Recovery
- 99 %
- Recovery Basis
- actual_test
Review
- Needs Review
- No
- Historical
- No
Dates
- Event date
- 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Reasoning: Recovery exceeds 99% threshold for cobalt.
Positive factors
- exceptional recovery
Evidence · text
“achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese”
leachmanganeseRecovery: 99 %View all detailsHide details
Identity
- Commodity
- manganese
- Ticker
- AMY
Test Work
- Program Status
- detailed
- Test Type
- leach
- Processing Route
- hydrometallurgical process
- Sample
- lithium-ion battery production scrap
Recovery
- Recovery
- 99 %
- Recovery Basis
- actual_test
Review
- Needs Review
- No
- Historical
- No
Dates
- Event date
- 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Reasoning: Recovery exceeds 99% threshold for manganese.
Positive factors
- exceptional recovery
Evidence · text
“achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese”
How Atlas produces this analysis
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