Recyclico Battery Materials Inc. (AMYZF)

[Ed from PR]

Pilot Plan is here!
see photographs at:
http://www.amydata.com/data/PilotPlantPresentation.pdf

("American Manganese" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce pilot plant test work has commenced to confirm and extend the conceptual process developed by Kemetco Research Inc. ("Kemetco") in 2010. The pilot plant, designed and built by Kemetco with input from BI Pure Water Inc. is assembled in modular form.

The initial stages include pre-leach and batch leach units coupled with a thickener and three stage counter current decantation (CCD) that can be operated in continuous mode in varied configuration at feed rates up to 50 Kg/hr. These unit operations will provide key information for leaching the manganese and production of pregnant leach solution as well as expectations of quality of residual leached solids (tailings). Bulk quantities of pregnant leach solution will be purified before separating the manganese as solid manganese carbonate and further processing the spent solution to recover a saleable byproduct sodium sulphate.

Arrangements have been made with contractors to provide expertise in such areas as liquid-solid separation, crystallization and nano-filtration which are key unit operations included in the proprietary technology.

Electrowinning to produce high purity manganese metal will be done using the purified manganese carbonate, initially dissolving it in sulphuric acid but thereafter recycling the spent anolyte to consume the sulphuric acid generated in electrolysis. As this work progresses recycle streams can be evaluated to determine and monitor impurity build up as it occurs. Some manganese carbonate will be used to produce high purity electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) which is to be evaluated for use in lithium manganese oxide batteries. Bulk samples of waste solids will be set aside for basic environmental work.

Wardrop, A Tetra-Tech Company (Wardrop), has been commissioned to put together the pre-feasibility evaluation report. They are working in conjunction with Kemetco who has total responsibility and authority for the pilot plant work under the direction of Dr. Gie Tan. Pilot plant work is expected to be completed with results available for Wardrop's pre-feasibility report scheduled for October, 2011.