(CercleFinance.com) – Rio Tinto has started production of spodumene concentrate, a mineral used in the manufacture of lithium for batteries, at its Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) demonstration plant in Sorel-Tracy, Canada .
The plant will make it possible to demonstrate on an industrial scale a new spodumene concentration process offering lithium oxide contents and recovery rates well above the industry average.
The process offers the environmental advantage of not using chemicals and generating only inert dry residues.
‘Our demonstration plant will allow us to further validate the innovative spodumene concentration process before considering moving to commercial scale production.’ , says Stéphane Leblanc, Executive Director, RTFT
The demonstration plant was commissioned in June after successful laboratory tests of the new process and the production of a first tonne of spodumene concentrate in July 2022.
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