Manganese producer, Element 25 has delivered multiple breakthroughs in its efforts to tap into the flourishing lithium-ion battery industry by producing a high-purity manganese sulphate monohydrate product, or “HPMSM” from its Butcherbird mine in Western Australia.
Optimisation test work on a flowsheet designed to convert manganese concentrate from the mine into HPMSM has reportedly reduced reagent consumption and waste production. The outcome could potentially result in reduced operational and capitals costs for the venture, according to the company.
Element 25 has a multi-stage strategy in place to unravel the full value of its Butcherbird project where a 263 million tonne resource grading more than 10 per cent manganese oxide has been defined.
Butcherbird recently achieved a ‘steady state’ of manganese output, with the first two shipments of manganese concentrate from the mine also recently shipped to a smelter in China owned by Element 25’s offtake partner.
Element 25 is looking to expand the concentrate business as part of ‘stage two’ of its strategy that could see either a doubling or trebling of plant throughput at Butcherbird, according to the company.
Under a subsequent ‘stage three’ development, Element 25 aspires to convert concentrate material from Butcherbird into HPMSM for use in electric vehicle batteries.
Management says recent testing of the flowsheet in the HPMSM conversion process has hit the bullseye, delivering numerous positive outcomes for the...
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