Element 25 to deliver first North American battery grade manganese sulphate processing facility
October 30, 2023 at 03:38 pm EDT
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Element 25 Limited managing director Justin Brown joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has provided an update on the planned construction of the first North American commercial scale battery grade high purity manganese sulphate processing facility to produce key raw materials for electric vehicle battery manufacture in the US.
Brown told Proactive the facility is targeting commissioning in 2025 to produce the first low-carbon, ethically sourced HPMSM in the US using the company’s 100%-owned Butcherbird Manganese Project in Western Australia. The project is supported by key offake and funding agreements in place with General Motors and Stellantis which are contributing a combined $115 million in project funding through a combination of equity, pre-payment and senior debt alongside of take for approximately 65% of the planned HPMSM production from the first production train.
Construction is expected to begin in first half of 2024.
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Element 25 Limited is an Australia-based mineral exploration company. The Company is the operator of the Butcherbird Manganese Project (Project), which hosts onshore manganese resources with Joint Ore Reserve Committee (JORC) resources of more than 260 million tons (Mt) of manganese ore. The Project is located approximately 1,050 kilometers north of Perth and over 130 kilometers south of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Company is developing capabilities by producing high-purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM) for sustainable lithium-ion battery cathode manufacture, with several production facilities planned. It is also focused on the Pinnacles Project, which is located approximately 75 kilometers northeast of Kalgoorlie, and over 50 kilometers from the Companyâs Lake Johnston Lithium Project. The Pinnacles Project extends its technology metal thrust targeting the manganese, lithium, and cobalt markets.