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Niomet Consortium · Critical Energy Metals
Energy from Rocks Waste to Metal
Bringing 21st-century mineral economics and clean extractive metallurgy to the critical energy metals play. Ultra-pure metals from tailings, mine residue, e-waste and run-of-mine ore, with no emissions, no toxic tailings and zero contaminants.
- 39 independent patents
- 128+ jurisdictions
- 0 emissions · toxic tailings · contaminants
Ore · run-of-mine
0Independent patents with concurrent coverage
0+Jurisdictions — granted, pending, PCT & national phase
>LMEUltra-pure metals & minerals exceeding LME grade
5MMarket · Management · M&A · Mining · Metals
Overview
Energy and metals are essential staples of a finite resource ecosystem.
There is a natural case for recovering both together, particularly where they can be derived from a single source of mine ore or waste, as with The Niomet Project.
Where it can be empirically demonstrated that the recovered energy and metals are clean and environmentally sustainable from “cradle to cash”, and that the ancillary metals, whether as oxide minerals or metal, are of a purity well exceeding the threshold required by modern batteries and power cells, there is a compelling case for accelerating development from proof of concept at pilot scale to commercial plant commissioning.
This, fundamentally, is the singular objective of the NIOMET Consortium.
The 5M framework
Five disciplines. One closed loop.
Market, Management, M&A, Mining and Metals: five disciplines brought to the critical energy metals play as one system.
Management
Open Construct W5
An open operating construct that answers the five questions of every project: who, why, what, when and where.
- Who
- Why
- What
- When
- Where
M&A
Open Ledger
Mergers, acquisitions and asset registers on an open ledger: trustless, permissionless and Byzantine fault tolerant.
- Trustless
- Permissionless
- BFT’d
Mining
Waste to Metal
Waste as ore: electric arc furnace dust, lithium batteries, printed circuit board assemblies, zinc plant leach residues and LCO and NMC cathode material.
- EAFD
- Li-B
- PCBA
- ZPL
- LCO
- NMC
Metals
Clean Extractive Metallurgy
Proprietary processes producing ultra-pure energy metals and minerals exceeding LME grade, with no emissions, no toxic tailings and zero contaminants.
- Ni
- Co
- Mn
- Mg
- Ti
- Zn
- V
- Au
- Ag
- Pb
- As
- Sn
- Cd
- Pt
- Rh
- Fe
- Li
- REE
- PGM
- HCl
Process
From waste stream to LME-grade metal.
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Feedstock
E-waste, gold and PGM feed, tailings, mine residue and run-of-mine ore.
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Clean extraction
Proprietary, patented processes transforming wastes to metals with no emissions, no toxic tailings and zero contaminants.
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Ultra-pure product
Ultra-pure Au, Ag, Cu, PGM, Sn, Ta and Sc, and energy metals Ni, Co, Mn, Mg, Fe, Ti, V, Li, Cd and REE, at purities exceeding LME grade.
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Energy recovered
Energy and metals recovered together from a single source of ore or waste, clean and environmentally sustainable from cradle to cash.
0Emissions
0Toxic tailings
0Contaminants
>LMEProduct purity
Facilities
From pilot plant to plant commissioning.
Energy metals
The elements the transition runs on.
Battery metals, precious and platinum-group metals and rare earths, recovered through clean extractive metallurgy.
NiNickel
CoCobalt
MnManganese
LiLithium
AuGold
AgSilver
PtPlatinum
RhRhodium
CuCopper
FeIron
TiTitanium
VVanadium
ZnZinc
MgMagnesium
SnTin
TaTantalum
ScScandium
CdCadmium
PbLead
REERare earths
Battery
Precious / PGM
Rare earth
Consortium principals
Built by a consortium, not a company.
The principals behind The Niomet Project, from proof of concept to plant commissioning.
- NIOMET
- ZnCore
- Neomet
- QH
- Assertion
- Ronin
- H2GM
- MDS
- Jones-Hamilton
- Andritz
- BG Materials
- NMR
“In God we trust; all others bring data.”
W. Edwards Deming
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