A feasibility study of innovative mineral processing routes to accelerate the low-carbon production of cathode raw materials from North East Scotland for the UK’s automotive industry

创新矿物加工路线的可行性研究，以加速苏格兰东北部为英国汽车行业生产阴极原材料

• 批准号: 10079765
• 金额: $ 37.47万
• 依托单位: ABERDEEN MINERALS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: BEIS-Funded Programmes
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10079765
• 关键词: feasibility; study; innovative; mineral; processing

UK cathode material demand for nickel is forecast by APC to grow from 3 thousand tonnes ("kt") in 2022 to 52 kt in 2030 (1,600% increase), and for cobalt from 1 kt to 9 kt (800% increase) over the same period. Currently, there is no domestic UK mine production of these metals and the UK battery industry must rely entirely on increasingly competitive overseas supply chains to meet this growing demand.Aberdeen Minerals is advancing mineral exploration and investigation work in Aberdeenshire focused on its Arthrath Project, the largest known deposit of nickel in the UK where battery raw materials occur in bedrock in the form of nickel-cobalt-copper sulphide mineralisation.The feasibility study will investigate innovative "hydrometallurgical" approaches to extract battery metals from ores from North East Scotland to both accelerate the production of cathode raw materials from Aberdeenshire and retain the "midstream" processing within the UK. The results of the study will inform the company's business case to accelerate the development of an integrated nickel-cobalt-copper mining and processing operation, as part of a "joined up" strategy to urgently deliver the cathode materials essential to the UK's automotive industry.

APC预测，英国阴极材料对镍的需求将从2022年的3000吨（“ KT”）增长到2030年的52 kt（增加1,600％），同一时期的钴从1 kt增加到9 kt（800％）。目前，这些金属的英国矿山尚无国内矿山的生产，英国电池行业必须完全依赖于越来越多的海外供应链来满足这一不断增长的需求。Aberdeen矿物正在推进矿物勘探和调查工作，在阿伯丁郡的矿物勘探和调查工作集中在其节肢动物项目上，这是英国最大的尼克型矿物质中最大的镍矿物质矿物质矿物质的矿物质矿物质的矿物质，这是矿物质的原料。研究将研究创新的“湿法铝”方法，以从苏格兰东北地区提取电池金属，以加速从阿伯丁郡的阴极原材料生产，并保留英国境内的“中游”加工。该研究的结果将告知公司的业务案例，以加快综合的镍铜铜矿开采和加工操作的开发，这是“加入”策略的一部分，以紧急向英国汽车行业提供必不可少的阴极材料。