US Department of Energy provides funds for First Cobalt’s Iron Creek project
First Cobalt and US Cobalt personnel on a site visit to the Iron Creek cobalt property in central Idaho. Credit: First Cobalt.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute is giving Toronto-based junior
First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) US$600,000 over two years for research on mineral processing techniques for the company’s Iron Creek copper-cobalt project in Idaho.
The funding, matched by the company, will be spent on “identifying more efficient and environmentally friendly methods to process cobalt ore from pyrite material,” First Cobalt announced in a press release, and will be part of a “collaborative research effort” with the Colorado School of Mines’ Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy (KIEM).
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TORONTO, April 28, 2021 /CNW/ -
First Cobalt Corp. (TSX-V: FCC) (OTCQX: FTSSF) (the Company ) today announced that it has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy s Critical Materials Institute (CMI), an Energy Innovation Hub, for research on innovative mineral processing techniques for its Iron Creek copper-cobalt project in Idaho.
This interdisciplinary, collaborative research effort will be conducted in conjunction with the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy (KIEM) at the Colorado School of Mines over a two-year period with the objective of identifying more efficient and environmentally friendly methods to process cobalt ore from pyrite material. The funding from CMI will consist of US$600,000 over a two-year period, with an in-kind match from the Company, as part of a total US$1.2 million program. The work is yet another executed step in First Cobalt s strategic plan to become the world s most sustainable producer of battery materials.
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Rio Tinto achieves battery grade lithium production at Boron plant, California
Rio Tinto achieves battery grade lithium production at Boron plant, California
8 April 2021
Group, the Anglo-Australian metals and mining corporation, has commenced production of
battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California, United States.
The demonstration plant is the next step in scaling up a breakthrough lithium production process developed at Boron, to recover the critical mineral and extract additional value out of waste piles from over 90 years of mining at the operation.
An initial small-scale trial in 2019 successfully proved the process of roasting and leaching waste rock to recover high grades of lithium.
Rio Tinto achieves battery-grade lithium production at Boron plant
Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California. The demonstration plant is the next step in scaling up a breakthrough lithium production process developed at Boron to recover the critical mineral and extract additional value out of waste piles from more than 90 years of mining at the operation.
Mining at Boron began in 1927 and today, the mine home to one of the richest deposits of borates in the world produces one million tonnes of refined borates every year, or approximately 30% of global demand.