MGX Minerals to proceed with battery metals extraction from pet coke
Date: Feb 26, 2018
BEIJING (Asian Metal) 26 Feb 18 – On February 23, Canadian-based MGX Minerals Inc. announced the Company has chosen to proceed with its previously announced partnership with Highbury Energy Inc. to develop a detailed thermochemical gasification process to extract metals such as nickel, vanadium, cobalt and hydrogen from petroleum coke (“Petcoke”).
Petcoke samples were obtained from Alberta oil sands (Sample #1) and refinery (Sample #2) sales stockpiles of available petcoke. Samples were analyzed by Acme Labs of Vancouver, British Columbia using standard ICP analyses. Results were as follows:
