Critical Mineral Recycling / Urban Mining
Recovery of critical minerals from fly ash, tailings, red mud and end-of-life products (e-waste, spent batteries).
Relationships
- producesCobalt— Spent Li-ion batteries are a target feedstock for cobalt recovery.
- producesLithium— Spent Li-ion batteries are a target feedstock under the recycling scheme.
- producesRare Earth Elements (magnet: Nd, Pr, Dy, Tb)— Recovery of REEs from end-of-life magnets and e-waste is a target stream of the Rs.1,500 cr recycling scheme.
- producesNatural Graphite— Spent Li-ion battery anodes are a target feedstock for graphite recovery.
- researchesTata Chemicals Limited— Operates a lithium-ion battery recycling pilot (operational since 2019).