AFRY Awarded Engineering Assignment for Jervois’ Cobalt Refinery in USA

AFRY has been appointed by Jervois Global Limited, an Australian-based leading cobalt company, to provide the basic engineering and bankable feasibility study for its planned cobalt refinery in the United States which currently has no operating cobalt refineries.

Basic Engineering (BE) and a bankable feasibility study (BFS) scope is a 6,000 metric tonnes per annum (“mtpa”) greenfield U.S. refinery. Expected BFS completion schedule will be available upon a final location decision. The refinery feed is expected to be based on approximately 20% recycled cobalt, largely in closed loop recycling whereby cobalt material used by customers is returned to Jervois for reprocessing.

“We are honored to partner with Jervois in this project to establish cobalt refining in the United States, where cobalt plays a significant role in various sustainable applications. AFRY is committed to adhering to responsible mining and metals industry principles and leveraging the best available technologies, enabling us to support Jervois in meeting and surpassing their ambitious environmental and sustainability goals,” says John Boettcher, AFRY’s Head of Process Industries in United States.

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