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Canada Silver Cobalt Works (TSXV: CCW) explained its Re-20x hydrometallurgical process to the audience as last week’s Bezinga virtual global small cap conference. The process involves no smelting of materials to recycle batteries in a cost competitive, environmentally sound and sustainable way, the company said.
Re-20x involves selective leaching, first in a reactor that removes arsenic and other undesirable metals. Copper arsenate for wood preservation is produced. A second reactor basically puts all the metals into solution from which they can be selectively removed as per a customer’s specifications. The second reactor also produces a rare earths and alkali metals stream.
