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Message par energy_isere » 31 oct. 2021, 11:02

La production de manganèse d'Afrique du Sud va augmenter dans les années à venir.

Le marché est bien alimenté et le prix minerai n'est pas à la hausse contrairement à d'autres métaux.
South Africa’s manganese output expected to grow – report

MINING.COM Staff Writer | October 24, 2021

South Africa’s manganese output is expected to increase strongly, with Roskill predicting that the country will account for around half of the additional global manganese ore production over the next decade.

Data by Research and Market and the Observatory of Economic Complexity placed South Africa as the world’s largest producer and exporter of manganese ore in 2019, accounting for 30% of global production and almost 50% of global exports.

In that year, the country exported – mainly to China, India, Japan and Norway – $3.16 billion in manganese ore, making the brittle metal its eighth most exported product.

In Roskill’s view, the positive trend for South African manganese is set to continue in part due to the ramping up of Ntsimbintle Holdings and Glencore’s Mokala mine in the Northern Cape.

Mokala is already entering a stable production phase so it should start soon generating more than one million tonnes of manganese ore a year. The operation has an opencast life of mine of more than 10 years, with additional underground resources.

“This is the second manganese mine brought into operation under Ntsimbintle’s umbrella, the first being the Tshipi é Ntle manganese mine, also located in the Northern Cape,” Roskill’s review states. “This comes despite a difficult price market for ores over 2021, which has seen significant contrast to the surging price market developments in alloys.”

The market analyst points out that while the manganese alloy markets have experienced undersupply and significant price increases, the ore market has remained burdened by high stock levels, which has led to slight price increases since the beginning of 2021.

Yet, according to Roskill, despite low ore prices and increased production costs, almost all mainstream ore suppliers remain profitable and none are cutting production to aid their higher-cost smaller-scale competitors.

“Indeed quite the reverse, numerous major ore producers are continuing to expand output, hence the global market remains very well supplied and prices have been held down,” the firm’s report reads.

Manganese ore is a key element in carbon steel production, while electrolytic manganese dioxide is an important ingredient in lithium-ion batteries for EVs and other applications, as well as alkaline and zinc-manganese batteries.
https://www.mining.com/south-africas-ma ... ow-report/

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Message par energy_isere » 26 déc. 2021, 11:28

suite de ce post du 11 sept 2021 viewtopic.php?p=2326343#p2326343
Botswana : Giyani réévaluera le potentiel du projet de manganèse K. Hill au premier semestre 2022

Agence Ecofin 22 dec 2021

Au Botswana, une nouvelle estimation de ressources est attendue sur le projet de manganèse K. Hill d’ici le premier semestre 2022. Depuis la dernière évaluation, le propriétaire Giyani Metals a entrepris plusieurs travaux d’exploration, notamment sur le prospect Otse et la découverte K. Hill Extension. Si le potentiel du projet est revu à la hausse, cela devrait impliquer une durée de vie plus grande alors qu’une étude publiée en avril dernier indiquait que K. Hill a assez de ressources pour livrer près d’un million de tonnes de sulfates de manganèse monohydratés de haute pureté sur 10 ans.
https://www.agenceecofin.com/manganese/ ... estre-2022

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Message par energy_isere » 25 févr. 2022, 00:02

La derniére fiche USGS pour le Manganése : https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs20 ... ganese.pdf

l'Afrique du Sud plus le Gabon font 55 % de la production mondiale

En milliers de tonnes :

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Message par energy_isere » 16 mai 2022, 01:27

suite de ce post du 4 oct 2020 viewtopic.php?p=2310116#p2310116

ce qui était un prospect de Zinc dans l'Est du Canada pourrait devenir une future mine de Manganèse :
Manganese X PEA outlines Battery Hill mine with $486m NPV, 25% IRR


Staff Writer | May 12, 2022 |

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Battery Hill project in New Brunswick. Credit: Manganese X Energy.

Manganese X Energy has delivered a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its wholly owned Battery Hill project located near Woodstock, New Brunswick, demonstrating the potential for a low-capital, long-life manganese mine operation in North America.


The PEA showed robust project economics of $486 million in after-tax net present value (using a 10% discount rate), with an 25% internal rate of return. Capital costs are estimated at $350 million, with a payback of 2.8 years.

The study assumes a base case market price of $2,900/tonne for battery-grade high-purity manganese sulphate, which is well below the long-term forecast price of $4,200/tonne estimated by CPM Group.

Based on this, the Battery Hill project would generate average annual gross revenue of $177 million over a life of 47 years, including 40 years of mine production and seven years of stockpile reclaim feed. Average gross revenue for the first seven years is $220 million. Its life of mine operating cost comes to $122/tonne of material processed.

Over an estimated 47-year mine life, the 1,000-tonne-per-day operation is estimated to produce 3.2 million tonnes of high-purity manganese sulphate, for annual production of 68,000 tonnes. Average production over the first seven years is 84,000 tonnes.

“The PEA represents the most significant milestone to date for Manganese X, and makes us the forerunner of becoming the first publicly traded company in Canada and the US to commercialize high-purity electric vehicle quality compliant manganese,” CEO Martin Kepman said in a news release.

The company is now advancing towards a pilot project, pre-feasibility study, as well as a drilling program to upgrade and expand the Battery Hill manganese resources. The project currently hosts 12.2 million tonnes of measured and indicated resources grading 7.45% manganese, plus 4.7 million inferred tonnes grading 8.26% manganese.
https://www.mining.com/manganese-x-pea- ... pv-25-irr/

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Message par energy_isere » 12 juin 2022, 09:55

Un prospect de Manganese en Australie :
Trek to acquire South Woodie Woodie manganese project in Australia

By NS Energy Staff Writer 07 Jun 2022

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Hendeka Project location map, including Trek Metals other Pilbara Projects. (Credit: Trek Metals)

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https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/t ... e-project/

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Message par energy_isere » 20 août 2022, 09:47

Gabon : la Comilog a produit 3,6 millions de tonnes de manganèse au 1er semestre 2022, soit une hausse de 17%

Agence Ecofin 14 aout 2022

Le pays vise pour cette année une production de 10,06 millions de tonnes de manganèse, soit 6,9% de plus que 2021. Sur l’exercice 2023-2024, il projette une production moyenne de 11 millions de tonnes.

Au cours du premier semestre 2022, la Compagnie minière de l’Ogooué (Comilog) a produit 3,6 millions de tonnes de manganèse informe le minier Eramet, sa maison mère, dans un communiqué. Cette production représente une hausse de 17% en glissement annuel.

La hausse est due « au programme d’expansion de la mine (de Moanda Ndlr.) combiné à de constants progrès opérationnels » relaie Le Nouveau Gabon. Par ailleurs, les volumes de ventes externes s’établissent à 2,9 millions de tonnes.

« Nous avons réalisé un très bon premier semestre qui se distingue par la hausse de nos volumes de production dans un environnement de prix particulièrement favorable. Nous abordons le second semestre en renforçant notre mobilisation sur l’excellence opérationnelle et l’optimisation du cash, dans un contexte macro-économique plus incertain », a commenté Christel Bories, PDG du groupe.

Pour le second semestre, la Comilog espère maintenir le cap afin d’atteindre les objectifs fixés en début d’année. Il s’agit notamment de produire 7,5 millions de tonnes de manganèse à fin 2022, ce malgré un fléchissement de la demande attendu au cours des prochains mois.
https://www.agenceecofin.com/mines/1408 ... usse-de-17

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Message par energy_isere » 21 août 2022, 11:18

Intérêt pour une potentielle mine de Manganése au Maroc :
Elcora, Gold Lion to start exploiting manganese mining license in Morocco
MININGMANGANESEMAJOR COMMODITIES

By NS Energy Staff Writer 19 Aug 2022
Gold Lion will acquire a 50% stake in the property, Elcora will use the proceeds to start ore production on the Manganese concession, and the two companies will share the profits generated from the production accordingly.
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The manganese concession is a past-producing French mine, where Elcora will leverage on-site infrastructure, facilities and up to 600 tonnes of raw ore ready for processing.

Furthermore, the development and exploration work at the project will determine whether an open pit or underground mining operation will be used in the future.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/e ... g-morocco/

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Message par energy_isere » 27 août 2022, 11:39

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Maroc : les canadiens Elcora et Gold Lion s’associent pour produire du manganèse

Agence Ecofin 22 aout 2022

Si le cobalt, le lithium ou le cuivre sont parfois les plus évoqués, plusieurs autres métaux entrent dans la chaine d’approvisionnement des véhicules électriques. C’est le cas du manganèse utilisé dans les batteries lithium-ion et dont la demande et le prix devraient augmenter durant la décennie.

Les compagnies minières canadiennes Elcora Advanced Materials et Gold Lion ont signé une lettre d’intention pour lancer la production de manganèse au Maroc. C’est ce qu’il faut retenir d’un communiqué publié le jeudi 18 août et qui précise que Gold Lion pourra acquérir 50 % d’intérêts dans le projet appartenant à 100 %, pour le moment, à une filiale d’Elcora.

Pour obtenir cette participation, Gold Lion devra débourser 500 000 $, dont la moitié en espèces et l’autre moitié sous forme d’actions ordinaires. Ce financement servira à réhabiliter les infrastructures du site présenté comme une ancienne mine française, sans autres précisions.

Environ 600 tonnes de minerai brut seraient déjà disponibles pour être transformées. De plus, les deux partenaires comptent mettre à profit cette production à petite échelle pour évaluer la possibilité d’une grande mine à ciel ouvert ou d’une exploitation souterraine, dans le cadre d’une production de manganèse à une échelle plus importante.

Il faut souligner que le lancement de ce projet correspond à l’objectif d’Elcora d’être un fournisseur de matériaux pour batteries électriques. Le manganèse est en effet utilisé dans les batteries lithium-ion des véhicules électriques. Alors que les ventes de véhicules électriques ont explosé depuis quelques années, la demande des métaux indispensables à leurs batteries augmente également.

Selon Bloomberg NEF, les prix du sulfate de manganèse devraient continuer d’augmenter cette année pour soutenir cette demande importante. Pour Elcora et Gold Lion, il faut donc absolument finaliser l’accord de partenariat afin de lancer la production le plus tôt possible.
https://www.agenceecofin.com/manganese/ ... -manganese

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Message par energy_isere » 25 sept. 2022, 09:39

Relance d'une (petite ?) mine de Manganese au Maroc par un minier Canadien :
Elcora and Gold Lion sign deal for Moroccan manganese mining license

By NS Energy Staff Writer 22 Sep 2022

The license is a previously producing mine that has existing on-site infrastructure, facilities, and up to 600 tonnes of raw ore ready to be processed

Canada-based firms Elcora Advanced Materials and Gold Lion Resources have signed a mineral option agreement to begin exploitation on the former’s manganese mining research license in Morocco.

As per the terms of the agreement, Gold Lion paid C$75,000 ($55,872) in cash and issued its common shares worth C$250,000 ($186,240) to acquire a 25% stake in the manganese licence.

The deal follows last month’s signing of a letter of intent by the parties to start working on the Moroccan manganese mining license.

Ermazon, a fully-owned subsidiary of Elcora, currently owns the mining licence. After the exploitation licence is issued, Elcora will start producing ore on the manganese concession with the proceeds from the transaction.

Elcora CEO Troy Grant said: “Elcora is pleased to work with Gold Lion to develop the Manganese site. Manganese is a critical metal used in the EV battery industry and is an important piece of our strategy to supply the increasing global demand for Manganese, Vanadium, Lead and Copper.

“We are looking forward to begin Manganese production during Q4 2022.”

Gold Lion can further acquire another 15% stake in the property by paying C$125,000 (C$93,120) in cash within five business days of getting notice that Ermazon has obtained the exploitation license of the concession.

Additionally, Gold Lion can acquire another 10% interest by offering C$50,000 ($37,248) within 15 business days of getting notice of the expected beginning of commercial production on the manganese license.

The manganese concession is a previously producing French mine, where Elcora will utilise on-site infrastructure, facilities, as well as up to 600 tonnes of raw ore that are ready to be processed.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/e ... g-license/

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Message par energy_isere » 09 oct. 2022, 23:29

Un prospect de Manganése aux USA (Arizona) qui pourrait bien devenir la seule mine de Manganèse des USA (depuis la fermeture de la dernière dans les années 70) :
EV demand sparks revival of US manganese mining after decades
Bloomberg News | October 3, 2022 | 1:57 pm Battery Metals Top Companies USA Manganese

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The Hermosa project is located in the Patagonia Mountains, about 80 km southeast of Tucson. Credit: South32 Ltd.


South32 Ltd. aims to accelerate development of the first new US manganese mine for decades as carmakers rush to secure supply of the metal needed in electric vehicle batteries.

Automakers are “super keen” to secure supply from the company’s Clark Deposit in Arizona, which would become the only local source of the metal, Chief Executive Officer Graham Kerr said in an interview. “Probably the bigger challenge is can we get it to them quick enough?”

Demand for manganese from the battery sector is set to surge ninefold by 2030, the fastest growth rate of any of the industry’s key metals, according to BloombergNEF. Prospects for production in the US are also being bolstered by efforts to reduce supply chain reliance on China under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA.

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. are among automakers aggressively adding new raw materials supply deals and seeking to accelerate development of local sources, stoking competition for commodities with rivals including Tesla Inc.

South32’s Arizona-mined manganese would be attractive to US carmakers because it would help them claim tax credits under Biden’s IRA, Kerr said at the company’s headquarters in Perth. The law, enacted in August, will grant credits for products with a percentage of materials extracted and processed in the US, or in nations that have a free trade agreement with Washington.

Discussions with prospective customers have included the potential to add refining in the US to deliver electrolytic manganese metal products, which would avoid the need to send raw materials to China or elsewhere for processing into specialist battery inputs, according to Kerr.

“It wouldn’t be a high-end refinery from our side,” he said in the interview last week. “It would be a relatively simple process.”

South Africa, Gabon and Australia account for more than two-thirds of production of manganese, mainly used in the steel sector, and domestic output in the US — which once had mines in states including Virginia — ended in the 1970s. China currently dominates refining of the metal into materials used in the battery sector, accounting for 95% of manganese sulfate production capacity last year, according to BloombergNEF.

Development of the Clark Deposit at South32’s Hermosa mine project could be accelerated under US legislation aimed at promoting fast development of clean energy and other infrastructure projects, Kerr said.

South32 has allocated $55 million of capital expenditure to work on Hermosa for the current fiscal year and expects to begin a pre-feasibility study of the Clark Deposit, aimed at examining potential plans for development, before mid-2023, according to filings. The company estimates the deposit contains 55 million tons of ore with a 9% manganese content.

The project may also be eligible for US government funding, Kerr said. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in July urged miners, including Australia-based companies, to explore potential support from agencies including the Department of Energy’s loan programs office.
https://www.mining.com/web/ev-demand-sp ... r-decades/

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Message par energy_isere » 29 oct. 2022, 10:33

Gabon : la production de manganèse d’Eramet augmente de 6 % à 2,1 millions de tonnes au 3ème trimestre

Agence Ecofin 8 octobre 2022

Premier producteur mondial de minerai de manganèse, le groupe français Eramet opère notamment au Gabon à travers sa filiale Comilog. Alors que sa production de manganèse était en hausse de 17% au premier semestre, la compagnie poursuit sur sa lancée au troisième trimestre de l’année.

Les mines de Comilog, filiale gabonaise d’Eramet, ont livré 2,1 millions de tonnes de manganèse au troisième trimestre 2022. C’est ce que la compagnie française a indiqué dans un rapport publié le jeudi 27 octobre, précisant qu’il s’agit d’une hausse de 6 % en glissement annuel.

Cela porte la production des neuf premiers mois de l’année à 5,7 millions de tonnes. Pour Eramet, l’agrandissement de la mine Moanda a joué un rôle clé dans ce résultat, cette dernière confirmant sa place de première mine au monde pour le manganèse à haute teneur.

Cette performance a soutenu la hausse de 46 % du chiffre d’affaires de la division manganèse, durant la période. Il s’est établi à 873 millions d’euros, avec l’activité minerai de manganèse générant à elle seule 465 millions d’euros, soit une progression de 53 % par rapport à la même période en 2021. Ce résultat est le fruit, apprend-on, d’une hausse des prix sur le marché mondial, combinée à l’augmentation des volumes vendus.

« Nous enregistrons une nouvelle progression de notre production et de nos ventes au 3ème trimestre grâce à nos investissements ciblés, créateurs de valeur, et nos efforts constants de productivité », a commenté Christel Bories, PDG d’Eramet.
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Message par energy_isere » 05 janv. 2023, 21:38

Sulfate de manganèse: le monopole chinois en question

RFI le : 05/01/2023 Par : Marie-Pierre Olphand

Le sulfate de manganèse est un composant essentiel des batteries des voitures électriques. Il est produit majoritairement en Chine. Ce qui pourrait poser un problème aux yeux de certains experts, dès l’année prochaine.


Beaucoup moins cher que le cobalt le cuivre ou le lithium, le sulfate de manganèse ne fait guère parler de lui alors qu’on en trouve entre 10 et 30 kilos dans la plupart des voitures électriques, la quantité dépendant du type et de la puissance des batteries. Certaines batteries en contiennent un tiers, voire même plus.

L’avantage du sulfate de manganèse de haute pureté contenu dans les batteries est son prix et sa disponibilité puisqu’il est élaboré à partir d’un minerai présent dans une trentaine de pays. Mais là où l’histoire se complique, c’est quand on parle de sa production.

Des prix chinois « artificiellement » bas

Car la Chine fournit aujourd’hui 95 % de la demande mondiale, essentiellement à partir de minerai chinois. Les 5 % restants sont issus de manganèse transformé au Japon et en Belgique et se commercialisent à un coût beaucoup plus élevé : là où la Chine vend la tonne à 1 000 dollars, ailleurs, elle est proposée à environ 2 500 dollars.

Si la Chine propose des prix « artificiellement bas », comme le dit un expert de la filière, c'est grâce au soutien apporté à l’industrie locale : terrains octroyés gratuitement, prêts à taux zéro ou encore prix de l’électricité défiant toute concurrence, sans parler de la main-d’œuvre bon marché, le tout dans un contexte de normes environnementales peu contraignantes.

Le créneau est porteur et la Chine l’a bien compris puisqu’elle continue d’augmenter ses capacités de transformation.

Aucune capacité de traitement en Amérique du Nord

La perturbation des chaînes d’approvisionnement mondiales depuis 2020 pourrait cependant rebattre les cartes. La mode est à la relocalisation du tissu industriel et à une production plus responsable.

Mais la filière ne pourra se développer en Europe ou en Amérique du Nord – où il n’y a aucune capacité de production pour l’instant – au plus près des fabricants de batteries que s’ils acceptent de payer un prix plus « équilibré », rappelle l’Institut international du manganèse qui espère qu’ils comprendront l’intérêt de bâtir leur propre chaîne d’approvisionnement.

Notamment, car la dépendance à la Chine pourrait s’amplifier si rien n’est fait. Au-delà des enjeux politiques, le risque est qu’une fois ce marché émergent devenu plus mature, les producteurs chinois, en situation de quasi-monopole, fassent monter les prix, à l’heure où la demande aura explosé.
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Message par energy_isere » 08 janv. 2023, 11:42

Manganese batteries market may face deficit in 2024

Bruno Venditti | January 3, 2023

The high-purity manganese market may face a deficit as early as 2024, according to people in the industry heard by MINING.COM.


An essential component of the steel-making process, manganese has played an increasing role in the battery market. The metal sulphate is an important stabilizing ingredient in the cathodes of batteries widely used in electric vehicles and electronics.

Volkswagen, Mercedes, Tesla, and GM are among the companies that have announced intentions to use high-purity manganese in their cars. A Chevy Bolt, for example, can contain over 24 kg of manganese.

“The reason nobody is talking about manganese is that it’s very cheap, and it’s taken for granted,” said Andrew Zemek, special adviser at CPM Group.

While the lithium price has skyrocketed over the last couple of years, passing $80,000 per tonne and other metals like cobalt and copper reached over $8,000 per tonne, manganese sulphate costs less than $1,000 per tonne in China.

But increasing demand from the EV industry and the subsequent deficit of high-purity manganese may impact the metal price in 18 or 24 months, according to Euro Manganese CEO Matt James.

“There’s been a build-out of manganese sulphate capacity in China and that has been enough to feed the current demands of the battery industry,” James told MINING.com. “But going forward, we’re going to see significant growth in both the European and North American battery industry. Both of those will require their own supply chains.”

“As the market looks to source locally, in North America because of the Inflation Reduction Act(IRA) or Europe because of geopolitics, when they start to look at the high-purity capacity in both of those regions, it is very very small,” James said.

“The Chinese price does not reflect a western price. The price today in Europe and North America commands a significant premium,” said James.

People in the industry estimate the price at $3,300 per tonne by 2027 — growing to $4,000 by 2031 for Europe and North America, considering the cost of freight from China and costs with green credentials.

Reliance on China

Over 92% of high-purity manganese sulphate conversion capacity is in China. Currently, only two plants outside of China are in production, one in Japan and the other in Belgium.

Vibrantz Technologies produces high-purity manganese in Belgium and sources its ore from South Africa, Gabon, and Brazil.

The other producer outside China is Nippon Denko in Japan, which also uses imported ore.

Combined, these two facilities produce around 5% of the global high-purity manganese sulphate.

“I don’t see a risk of shortage in the short term because so much capacity is being built in China,” said Aloys d’Harambure, executive director of the International Manganese Institute.

However, the market may have to adjust with the United States and Europe moving to build their own supply chain of battery materials.

“The environmental, social, and governance procedures in China are sometimes not as strict as in other, European and North American and, some African countries. The cost of high manganese sulphate that you see from China is not realistic from the rest of the industry,” said d’Harambure.

According to Sam Jaffe, vice president of Battery Storage Solutions, China can always “blow out” the North American and European competitors if it chooses to do so.

But that dynamic is changing.

“As we move to intracontinental supply chains, China remains a huge factor in the high-purity manganese market, but it’s not the single determinant of where those markets will move,” said Jaffe.

Piping Manganese

By 2031, North America is expected to require over 200Kt of high-purity manganese annually.

The continent, however, has no current high-purity manganese processing capacity to supply a large number of battery gigafactories and cathode plants under development.

South32 is developing the first new US manganese mine in decades. The company has allocated $55 million of capital expenditure to work on the Hermosa project in Arizona for the current fiscal year and expects to begin a pre-feasibility study before mid-2023.

In Europe, Euro Manganese is developing its Chvaletice Project in the Czech Republic, the only sizeable, classified resource of manganese in the European Union.

The project entails re-processing manganese deposits contained in waste (tailings) from a decommissioned mine that operated between 1951 and 1975.

The company plans to convert the carbonate to high-purity manganese metal and sulphate and send it to Euro Manganese’s planned processing facility in Quebec where it will be converted into a liquid sulphate. The site is adjacent to two proposed cathode plants allowing the liquid sulphate to be piped directly into the cathode production processes.

“Going forward, we’re going to see a European battery industry and a North American battery industry,” said Jaffe. “Both of those are growing at a tremendous pace and are gonna require their own supply chains, including a supply chain for manganese. And when you thinking about moving forward, I would talk about 10 years from now or over the next five years.”
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Message par energy_isere » 08 janv. 2023, 11:52

suite de ce post du 7 juillet 2019 viewtopic.php?p=2285022#p2285022

pour le projet de Manganese de CHVALETICE en Tchequie :
PROJECT OVERVIEW

Located approximately 90 km east of Prague in the Czech Republic, the Chvaletice Manganese Project entails re-processing a significant manganese deposit contained in waste (tailings) from a decommissioned mine that operated between 1951 and 1975.

The Chvaletice resource is the only sizeable, classified resource of manganese in the European Union.

Chvaletice is not a mining project. It is a unique and innovative waste recycling initiative that avoids the negative impacts of traditional hard rock mining. As the project recycles historic mine tailings, it will clean up the contaminated site and eliminate a longstanding source of water pollution. Over the 25-year life of the Project, remediation and reclamation work will be conducted to bring the entire Chvaletice site into compliance with the Czech Republic’s stringent environmental regulations and standards.

As a source of an important battery raw material, the Project is well positioned to support the EU and the Czech Republic’s green goals of reducing the region’s carbon footprint and working towards a more sustainable, circular economy.

The Project has the potential to reduce Europe’s reliance on imports of raw battery materials by providing up to 20% of projected 2030 European demand for high-purity manganese.

Commercial development of the Chvaletice resource is expected to create approximately 400 full-time jobs, numerous commercial opportunities for Czech businesses, as well as substantial fiscal revenues for the Czech State and local communities.

Since 2015, during the evaluation and planning phase of the Project, Mangan Chvaletice has proactively and widely engaged with local authorities and community members. The company has benefited from their valuable feedback to refine and improve the Project design and development plan, with the goal of successfully integrating it into the local environment and life of the community.

On July 27, 2022, EMN announced the results of a Feasibility Study (“FS”) for the Chvaletice Manganese Project, having an after-tax NPV of US$1.34 billion using an 8% discount rate, and an after-tax IRR of 21.9%. Please refer to the Feasibility Study section below, and to the Company’s news release dated July 27, 2022. Further information about the FS, including key assumptions, parameters, risks and other factors, will be provided in the NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Chvaletice Manganese Project, which will be filed on SEDAR within 45 days of publication of the FS release.
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A summary of the updated Chvaletice Technical Report Mineral Resource Estimate resulted in a reclassification and upgrade of the tailings contained in the three Chvaletice tailings cells to Measured and Indicated categories, from Indicated and Inferred. The Project's combined Measured and Indicated Resources now amount to 26,960,000 tonnes, grading 7.33% total manganese and 5.86% soluble manganese, as summarized below:

Manganese in the Chvaletice tailings is fairly evenly distributed through entire deposit. The deposit contains finely milled, unconsolidated tailings placed above ground, which are expected to result in very low mining and virtually zero ore dressing costs. Approximately, 80% of manganese is contained in leachable manganese carbonate minerals that require no calcination, unlike manganese oxide ore.

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Les mines tailings contiennent dans le 7 % de Manganèse.

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Stellantis signe des accords de fourniture de sulfate de Manganèse avec l' Australien Element 25 pour livraison à partir de 2026.
Stellantis Signs Binding Agreement with Element 25 Limited for Manganese Sulphate Supply for Electric Vehicle Batteries
Stellantis strengthens value chain for electric vehicle battery production supporting Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan targets


By NS Energy Staff Writer 10 Jan 2023

Stellantis N.V. and Element 25 Limited announced today the signing of a binding agreement for Element 25 to supply battery grade, high purity manganese sulphate monohydrate to Stellantis for use in electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. The five-year agreement calls for shipments to begin in 2026, a total volume of 45 kilotons, and options to extend the supply term and volumes.

Element 25 will source the material from its Butcherbird project in Western Australia and plans to construct a processing facility in the United States. Stellantis will make an equity investment in Element 25.

“Our commitment to a carbon net zero future includes creation of a smart supply chain to ensure we meet our customers’ desire for EVs,” said Carlos Tavares, Stellantis CEO. “Electric vehicles that deliver breakthrough customer experience in propulsion, connectivity and convenience are central to our Dare Forward 2030 plan that delivers safe, clean and affordable mobility.”

The agreement with Element 25 reinforces Stellantis’ electrification strategy, which includes securing substantial supplies of raw materials for battery electric vehicle (BEV) production. Manganese is a key stabilizing element in the cathode of EV batteries.

As part of its Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan, Stellantis announced plans of reaching 100% of passenger car BEV sales mix in Europe and 50% passenger car and light-duty truck BEV sales mix in the United States by 2030. Stellantis will be the industry champion in climate change mitigation, becoming carbon net zero by 2038, with a 50% reduction by 2030.

Stellantis plans to invest more than €30 billion through 2025 in electrification and software development, while targeting to continue to be 30 percent more efficient than the industry with respect to total Capex and R&D spend versus revenues.

“Stellantis’ support for Element 25’s high purity battery-grade manganese sulphate project is a fantastic endorsement by one of the world’s largest automakers and validates our plans to become a globally significant long-term supplier of battery materials to meet growing global demand,” Element 25 Managing Director Justin Brown said. “We are fully aligned with Stellantis’ decarbonization and electrification goals, which represent some of the most ambitious in the industry and have committed to reach agreed net zero carbon emission goals under this deal.”

Performance of the parties under the binding term sheet is conditioned on satisfactory completion of technical due diligence and a feasibility study.
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