Battery recycling at First Cobalt refinery

Furthering its vision of developing an integrated lithium-ion battery park centered on its refinery in Ontario, Canada, First Cobalt Corp. reports that it has successfully extracted nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese, lithium, and graphite from a "black mass" product recovered from recycled batteries.

In the lithium-ion battery recycling process, black mass is a powdery material that is produced by...