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Under the Pan-African Decarbonization Institute, a mine waste slug would be characterized and cobalt extracted for application in the renewable energy using African talents.
About
Waste is detrimental to the environment but this project seeks to use waste to solve the growing need and demand for clean technologies by extracting cobalt which is a key element for energy transition, from a mine waste slug. The innovative project showcases how waste reduction and critical mineral production can be a mutually inclusive event to simultaneously reduce environmental risk whilst enhancing the accelerated production of materials towards green and clean energy.
Tons of mine slugs have been deposited over decades from mining operations in Zambia and these deposits contains cobalt which were never a sought after in the years past. With the current surge in demand for cobalt, it is imperative that these be slugs exploited to create value which will be useful in electronic vehicle battery production, electrode for Li-ion batteries, key component solar panels and wind mills. Doing this require experts who understand process for this extraction and the Pan-African Decarbonization Institute(P-ADI) which has put together Pan-African world class researcher based in Africa will provide solution to this waste to cobalt project using fully indigenous people. Under P-ADI the methods to employs will be globally accepted principles, devoid of the common issues child labour, slavery and inhumane practises which the sector is plagued with. Amira Global, the organization running P-ADI having been in existence for over 60 years upholds the highest standards in the it's operation, which will be brought to bare for the success of this project.
Key Benefits
- Build the local capacity of Africans to take lead in the decarbonization, clean and transition energy sector using African resources both natural and human.
- Help mines achieve their environmental sustainability and governance goals through waste reduction.
- Create useful cobalt material for downstream application companies like EV and Li-on battery, solar panel production firm and wind mill manufacturers company
- The outcome of this project will be very scalable and applicable to numerous mine wastes across the world.
- Ultimately utilize the local human resource capacity built from this project to assist globally in the space of valorization of cobalt.
Applications
- Manufactures of EV batteries
- Manufactures of Li-Ion batteries
- Producers of Solar panels components
- Manufactures of wind mill components
- Sustainability and climate change developmental partners
- Mining companies with cobalt in the wastes slugs
- Skill development partners
- Afrocentric decarbonization funding groups
- Energy transition and renewable energy focus partners