# RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant Testing Achieves Over 99% Leach Extraction of Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Manganese from Lithium-ion Battery Production Scrap

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--45ff6d88-ee4f-407c-ab1e-edeb8859a840

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/AMY/news/6453948478395626/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2022-09-20T08:30:00.000Z

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, Cobalt, Manganese

- Document categories: Metallurgy

- Extracted: 2026-08-22 23:01:51 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.90 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas 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 factor: exceptional recovery rates

- Positive factor: demonstration plant scale

- Positive factor: multiple metal extraction

Facts used in scoring: 4

## Classification and evidence

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: 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)

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--45ff6d88-ee4f-407c-ab1e-edeb8859a840#fact-metallurgical-facts-0)

lithium

#### 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 factor: exceptional recovery

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--45ff6d88-ee4f-407c-ab1e-edeb8859a840#fact-metallurgical-facts-1)

nickel

#### 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 factor: exceptional recovery

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--45ff6d88-ee4f-407c-ab1e-edeb8859a840#fact-metallurgical-facts-2)

cobalt

#### 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 factor: exceptional recovery

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--45ff6d88-ee4f-407c-ab1e-edeb8859a840#fact-metallurgical-facts-3)

manganese

#### 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 factor: exceptional recovery

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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