# RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant Testing Achieves Over 99% Leach Extraction of Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Manganese from Lithium-ion Battery Production Scrap

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--a7787dd8-febe-47ef-81e6-fe73acc8a07a

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/AMY/news/6453948478395626/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2022-09-20T08:30:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: American Manganese Inc

- Ticker: AMY

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: British Columbia

- Primary commodity: Lithium

- Secondary commodities: Nickel, Cobalt, Manganese

- Document categories: Metallurgy, Other

- Extracted: 2026-09-15 11:32:56 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.80 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

RecycLiCo Battery Materials announced that its demonstration plant leach stage testing achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese from battery production scrap. The testing investigated various operating parameters to support ongoing commercial plant design.

Reasoning: The demonstration plant achieved exceptionally high leach extraction rates for all target battery metals from production scrap.

- Positive factor: High extraction efficiency \(>99%\)

- Positive factor: Demonstration plant scale testing

- Positive factor: Multi-metal recovery \(Li, Ni, Co, Mn\)

Facts used in scoring: 4

## Classification and evidence

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: Achieved over 99% extraction for lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese.

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

**Single Domain Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Testing limited to one composite or domain — representativeness not established.

Why it applies: only one composite was tested

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 4. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Metallurgical Results (4)

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--a7787dd8-febe-47ef-81e6-fe73acc8a07a#fact-metallurgical-facts-0)

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant · lithium

#### Identity

- Project: RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant
- Commodity: lithium
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: AMY

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: leach
- Processing Route: leach
- Sample: lithium-ion battery production scrap

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 99 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Kemetco Research Inc.

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Extraction rate exceeds the exceptional threshold for lithium.

- Positive factor: Over 99% extraction achieved

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

#### Tags used in scoring

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: 99% is at or above the exceptional band \(80%\)

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--a7787dd8-febe-47ef-81e6-fe73acc8a07a#fact-metallurgical-facts-1)

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant · nickel

#### Identity

- Project: RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant
- Commodity: nickel
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: AMY

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: leach
- Processing Route: leach
- Sample: lithium-ion battery production scrap

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 99 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Kemetco Research Inc.

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Extraction rate exceeds the exceptional threshold for nickel.

- Positive factor: Over 99% extraction achieved

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

#### Tags used in scoring

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: 99% is at or above the exceptional band \(90%\)

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--a7787dd8-febe-47ef-81e6-fe73acc8a07a#fact-metallurgical-facts-2)

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant · cobalt

#### Identity

- Project: RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant
- Commodity: cobalt
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: AMY

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: leach
- Processing Route: leach
- Sample: lithium-ion battery production scrap

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 99 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Kemetco Research Inc.

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Extraction rate exceeds the exceptional threshold for cobalt.

- Positive factor: Over 99% extraction achieved

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

### leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/recyclico-battery-materials-demonstration-plant-testing-achieves-over-99-leach-e--a7787dd8-febe-47ef-81e6-fe73acc8a07a#fact-metallurgical-facts-3)

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant · manganese

#### Identity

- Project: RecycLiCo Battery Materials Demonstration Plant
- Commodity: manganese
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: AMY

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: leach
- Processing Route: leach
- Sample: lithium-ion battery production scrap

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 99 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Kemetco Research Inc.

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2022-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Extraction rate exceeds the exceptional threshold for manganese.

- Positive factor: Over 99% extraction achieved

Evidence · text

> achieved over 99% extraction of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese

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