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By Pratima Desai | Reuters LONDON LONDON Investors are buying up physical cobalt anticipating that shortages of the metal, a key component of lithium-ion batteries used in electrical cars, will spur prices to their highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.Prices for cobalt metal have climbed nearly 50 percent since September to five-year peaks around $19 … Read More

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The Artillery Peak district in Arizona hosts a world class deposit of Manganese, and RecycLiCo Battery Materials (AMY) has developed a patented extraction process that produces high purity products with one of the lowest operating costs in the world. The current price of electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) has fallen from a $1.54 world price to … Read More

By Larry W. Reaugh – President & CEO of RecycLiCo Battery Materials As you may know, a very important bill has been circulating through the U.S. House of Representatives over the last month, a bill that could potentially change the landscape of permitting mine sites in the United States. H.R. 4402 (also known as the … Read More

Manganese is a critical metal in today’s markets.  It is a crucial component to steel, used in a variety of alloys and for us most importantly is used in the creation of lithium-ion batteries.  Lithium ion batteries contain 4% lithium, 61% manganese and 35% oxygen by weight.  Manganese however, is not a well known … Read More

Plenty of activity has happened with American Manganese over the past few months, which gives us an opportunity to sit down with President & CEO Larry Reaugh to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities facing the company, as well as discover a more personal side to the man running the show. Since the PFS, … Read More

By Larry W. Reaugh – President & CEO of RecycLiCo Battery Materials It has been a busy month for us here at American Manganese, with the completion of our Pre-Feasibility report for the Artillery Peak project and the public release of parts of that report on May 17th. The release of this report is one … Read More

By Larry W. Reaugh – President & CEO of RecycLiCo Battery Materials Earlier this week (April 16th) Global Industry Analysts Inc. released a new report outlining the future growth of manganese, electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) and electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD). In this report GIA forecasted the manganese market to grow to 24.9 million metric tons … Read More

By Larry W. Reaugh – President & CEO of RecycLiCo Battery Materials At American Manganese, we’re proud of the low energy and low water process we’ve designed for producing electrolytic manganese metal. As we described in February, our Artillery Peak property in Arizona’s process is to use a fraction of the power of today’s processes … Read More