The Elements of Innovation Discovered
The Elements of Innovation Discovered
Metal Tech News - May 21, 2025
The United States has no shortage of cobalt ore, such as this sample collected from the Bornite copper-silver-cobalt project in Alaska, where this sample was collected, but it has zero capacity to refine that ore into the metals needed by industry.
Xerion develops cleaner, single-step tech to turn ore and scrap into battery-grade cobalt.
America's dependence on foreign nations for critical minerals, especially China, stems largely from a lack of domestic refining capacity. Ohio-based Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. aims to shift this paradigm with a breakthrough single-step process to sustainably refine cobalt, a metal essential to electric ve...
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