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The rising number of electric vehicles in both the consumer and industrial sectors means electric vehicle battery companies are going to need an increasing amount of valuable metals. Geologists Rob Bergmann and Brian Lentz think they have found an answer by extracting cobalt, copper and nickel from industrial waste streams. The Minneapolis-based geologists that own Big Rock Exploration and several mining-related firms have formed a developmental stage company called Exsolve Recycling Technologi...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Geologists Brian Lentz, left, and Rob Bergmann discovered that industrial waste streams hold rich concentrations of critical electronic-vehicle battery metals. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS) This company wants to ‘mine’ garbage to find metals for EV batteries The rising number of electric vehicles in both the consumer and industrial sectors means electric vehicle battery companies are going to need an increasing amount of valuable metals. ...

Minneapolis company wants to mine garbage to find metals for EV batteries New firm breaks ground on expansion to an existing Mich. recycling center to extract cobalt, copper, nickel from industrial waste.  April 4, 2021 — 2:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: The rising number of electric vehicles in both the consumer and industrial sectors means electric vehicle battery companies are going to need an increasing amount of valuable metal...