Canada-based supplier First Cobalt has extracted nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese, lithium and graphite from a "black mass" product recovered from recycled batteries, the company said on Thursday July 22.
The extraction was done at the company's hydrometallurgical refinery located north of Toronto.This refinery has existing capabilities (size and scale) to produce separate products containing nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. With flow sheet modifications, recovery of lithium and graphite could...