CobaltCobalt is a key element in the productionProductions of lithiumLithium-ion batteriesBattery (USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022—Cobalt, USGS, 2022; Li and Lu in Science 367:979–980, 2020). With a large spike in cobaltCobalt demandDemand under way due to the rise in demandDemand for elections, especially electric vehiclesElectric Vehicles (EVs), new sources of cobaltCobalt need to be explored. CobaltCobalt is currently exclusively produced as a secondary product in other elemental mining operations, namely copperCopper and nickelNickel, and is therefore highly reliant on other metalMetals pricing for productionProductions. ProductionProductions is also dominated by the Democrat Republic of Congo, with refining equally dominated by China, making the supplySupply chain valuable to distribution. All this has resulted in the United States Department of Energy destinating cobaltCobalt as a critical mineral.

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Magnetic Separation of Pyrite for Cobalt Recovery at the Iron Creek Deposit

  • Emma Bishop,
  • Corby Anderson,
  • Erik Spiller,
  • George Puvvada

摘要

CobaltCobalt is a key element in the productionProductions of lithiumLithium-ion batteriesBattery (USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022—Cobalt, USGS, 2022; Li and Lu in Science 367:979–980, 2020). With a large spike in cobaltCobalt demandDemand under way due to the rise in demandDemand for elections, especially electric vehiclesElectric Vehicles (EVs), new sources of cobaltCobalt need to be explored. CobaltCobalt is currently exclusively produced as a secondary product in other elemental mining operations, namely copperCopper and nickelNickel, and is therefore highly reliant on other metalMetals pricing for productionProductions. ProductionProductions is also dominated by the Democrat Republic of Congo, with refining equally dominated by China, making the supplySupply chain valuable to distribution. All this has resulted in the United States Department of Energy destinating cobaltCobalt as a critical mineral.