battery_metal · byproduct
At a glance
Price · 2025
15dollars per pound
USGS MCS (LME)
Price trend
+27% 1Y
-10%/yr · 4Y CAGR
US net import reliance · 2025
79%
Production HHI
0.60
Highly concentrated (>0.25)
From ore to use
lifecycle flow
10.6Mt
Congo (Kinshasa) leads · 57% share
Provenance
268.5Kt
Congo, Democratic Republic top · 2024
9.5Kt
net importer · 2025
1.5Kt
year-end · 2025
9.6Kt
Consumption (includes secondary): Apparent · 2025
Process engineering
2 PROMMIS flowsheets
PROMMIS · diafiltration
Open workbench →Single two-salt diafiltration module - Co stays in the retentate as Li exits via the permeate. Selectivity is the natural design objective when Co is the target stream.
commodity: cobalt · suggested axis: diafiltrate_flow_volume · y: co_permeate_recovery_pct
PROMMIS · membrane_cascade
Open workbench →Multi-stage cascade cost-optimized against a Co recovery floor - the trade-off curve of cost vs how much Co you insist on recovering.
commodity: cobalt · suggested axis: cobalt_recovery_target · y: total_annualized_cost
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