{"id":1126300,"date":"2019-07-12T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=996464"},"modified":"2019-07-12T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:15:44","slug":"american-manganeses-lithium-ion-battery-recycling-technology-achieves-high-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1126300","title":{"rendered":"American Manganese\u2019s lithium-ion battery recycling technology achieves high purity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY) reported achieving 99.88% purity in its production of NMC cathode material using its proprietary <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/american-manganeses-lithium-ion-battery-recycling-technology-granted-patent\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"RecycLiCo process (opens in a new tab)\">RecycLiCo<\/a><\/g><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/american-manganeses-lithium-ion-battery-recycling-technology-granted-patent\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"RecycLiCo process (opens in a new tab)\"> process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scrap NMC contains lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt and, according to the British Columbia-based firm, its <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com\/american-manganese-help-us-government-recover-lithium-ion-battery-materials\/\">technology<\/a> is capable of recycling the minerals and generating products for lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the company said that the high-purity recovery rates recently reported prove that it is possible to expect a sustainable supply of such metals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCathode materials require extremely high purity levels and must be almost entirely free of unwanted metals in order to conform to industry specifications, which our initial results confirmed today,\u201d Larry Reaugh, American Manganese&#8217;s president and CEO, said in the media brief. \u201cWe continue to develop and be transparent with our results in order to set the benchmark on recovery and purity potential in the lithium-ion battery recycling field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides high purity, AMY&#8217;s technology showed earlier this year that it is also able to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/american-manganeses-lithium-ion-battery-recycling-technology-achieves-high-recovery-rates\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"high extraction rates (opens in a new tab)\">high extraction rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of lab tests run by independent lab Kemetco, recovery rates were of 94% from NMC scrap and 91.4% from NCA scrap, the latter containing lithium-nickel-cobalt-aluminum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company reported achieving 99.88% purity in its production of NMC cathode material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1016,369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126339,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126300\/revisions\/1126339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}