New Zealand engineers have developed a patented chemical process that produces multiple valuable minerals from a thought-to-be-worthless rock called olivine, leaving no harmful waste behind
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
New Zealand engineers have developed a patented chemical process that produces multiple valuable minerals from a thought-to-be-worthless rock called olivine, leaving no harmful waste behind
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
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One of the materials is nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide, which is increasingly required for lithium-ion battery production. Will this process help to create more batteries without the waste products produced in other mining ventures?