SXOOF - EV Batteries Recovery Tests Results: Lithium
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Montréal – TheNewswire - March 18, 2021 – St-GeorgesEco-Mining Corp. (CSE:SX) (OTC:SXOOF) (FSE:85G1) (CNSX:SX.CN) is pleased to provide an updateon the initial testing phase of an array of electric vehiclesbatteries it received at its testing installations in Québec.
The Company hascompleted EV battery characterization for the following car makers:Tesla, General Motors (GM), Ford, Toyota, and Nissan. The batterieswere sourced from industry aggregators. The Company’s chemists andmetallurgists created synthetic powder clones of the metal’scomponents allowing the testing’s acceleration.
99.99%of the lithium leached in solution after 5 minutes at low temperatureand without applying pressure.
This is in line with theresults obtained previously by the Company’s metallurgical team thatwas able to leach more than 99% of the cobalt and the nickel containedin the batteries. Furthermore, the aluminium foil used to hold thedifferent metals in the batteries’ core remains intact and can berecycled.
The Company expects toconfirm these results via a series of pilot tests as it now is inpossession of car makers’ specific testing protocols. Testing willbe documented and independently confirmed. The Company expects toinitiate the next phase, metals purification, in April. The Companyhopes to be able to reduce processing time and increase acid re-usage.
EVSX and St-Georges havealso identified some of the key equipment required from industrialequipment manufacturers. They expect to be able to receive theelectrolysis equipment during the month of May, allowing themanufacture of lithium hydroxide.
The Company had alreadydisclosed on February 22, 2021, that additional tests to optimize theprocess of recovery of critical elements were to be conducted usingsynthetic compounds to move the development along faster. Work isongoing at multiple locations, speeding up delivery and furtherprotecting intellectual property.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARDOF DIRECTORS
President & CEO of St-Georges Metallurgy& Director & VP R&D St-Georges Eco-Mining
St-Georges is developingnew technologies to solve some of the most common environmentalproblems in the mining industry. The Company controls all the activemineral tenures in Iceland. It also explores for nickel & PGEs onthe Julie Nickel Project and the Manicougan Palladium Project on theQuébec’s North Shore. Headquartered in Montreal, St-Georges’stock is listed on the CSE under the symbol SX, on the US OTC underthe Symbol SXOOF and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol85G1.
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