The Metals Company, an explorer of lower-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules, has announced that it has derived an alloy comprised of high-grade battery metals from its pilot smelting campaign, conducted in partnership with Expert Process Solutions (XPS) with support from Hatch and Optimize Group.
The Metals Company, an explorer of lower-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules, has announced that it has derived an alloy comprised of high-grade battery metals from its pilot smelting campaign, conducted in partnership with Expert Process Solutions (XPS) with support from Hatch and Optimize Group.
The smelting work builds on last year’s calcining campaign at FLSmidth’s facilities, which demonstrated that conventional, well-proven rotary kiln technology can be utilised for this process.
Led by The Metals Company’s Head of Onshore Development, Dr. Jeffrey Donald, the pilot project team utilised a custom process derived from conventional nickel flowsheets to segregate the base metals contained in the nodules into two concentrated streams: an alloy comprised of critical metals essential for EV batteries and wiring including nickel, cobalt, and copper; and a manganese silicate which can be sold direct to market and further processed to manganese alloy — a critical input to steel production.
Dr. Donald comments:
“From a metallurgical perspective, nodules are a great feedstock to work with.
“They have high grades of valuable metals, few...
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