AMYZF AMY.V Interesting Article - Brunell commentaryhttps://www.thereflector.com/stories/brunell-commentary-recycling-batteries-key-to-protecting-our-planet,270961 One approach is converting car batteries for household use. The Guardian reports Aceleron, a hi-tech British startup, plans to take electric car batteries which still have 70 percent of their capacity and repackage them for growing home energy storage.
American Manganese, Inc. (AMY), a Surrey, B.C. company, has patented a process which recovers lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and aluminum from cathodes used in lithium-ion batteries. AMY uses a leaching and precipitation method to recover the metals. Currently, the cathodes are smelted and only a portion of the cobalt is salvaged, but virtually no lithium.
The new technology is of particular interest to our nation which imports three-fourths of its cobalt, half of its lithium and all of its manganese. China is the predominant metals supplier and has been stockpiling those critical metals.