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Boston Metal - Molten Oxide Electrolysis Green Steel Cell for Critical Metals Production
Boston Metal is transforming the metals industry by introducing a revolutionary technology that recovers critical metals from mining waste, using an innovative platform known as Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE). This technology harnesses electricity to separate essential metals such as ferro-niobium, ferro-tantalum, and ferro-tin from mining slag, a major byproduct of large-scale mining operations. Due to the inefficiencies and costs associated with traditional waste treatment, MOE offers a sustainable and economically viable alternative. The technology is modular and scalable, allowing companies to tailor the process for different metals, hence optimizing metal recovery. Addressing environmental concerns and economic inefficiencies, Boston Metal's technology converts waste into profit while reducing environmental impacts. This approach helps meet the increasing demand for critical metals, essential for various industries including automotive, electronics, and aerospace. By leveraging MOE, mining companies can access previously uneconomic resources and generate new revenue while contributing to a circular economy.
We are turning a liability into an asset with an efficient, flexible platform technology that uses electricity to produce highly profitable critical metals from mining waste.
Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) for Critical Metals Production
The world’s large-scale mining operations produce over 100 billion tons of solid waste per year, and the current waste storage and treatment facilities are unprofitable. This mining waste, known as slag, often contains useful and precious resources that, before our technology, were difficult to reclaim.
We are empowering mining companies to recover value from a liability while advancing a circular economy for the metals industry. MOE uses electricity to precisely separate valuable target metals, such as ferro-niobium and ferro-tantalum, from the waste of incumbent technologies.
By leveraging a natural byproduct of metal production, mining companies can create new revenue streams while reducing the financial liabilities of slag. With MOE, the metals industry has a scalable, cost-competitive and sustainable solution to produce a variety of metals and alloys from a wide range of feedstocks.
Profit from Waste
The cost of slag storage and treatment facilities is a drain on the bottom-lines of mining companies. Our critical metals solution increases profit margins by using lower cost feedstocks, enabling MOE to access previously uneconomic ore resources and extract metals from the waste of legacy technologies.
Efficient Solution
Using MOE cells to recover critical metals from mining waste is substantially more efficient and cost-effective than the incumbent methods of producing ferroalloys.
Flexible Technology
MOE is modular, scalable and can be tailored for use with multiple target metals. Our MOE cells can be scaled by adding new cells. This allows for a uniquely customizable and tailormade solution for critical metals production.
Our MOE technology is highly selective, and we are currently focused on producing niobium, tantalum and tin ferroalloys. Although not considered a high-value metal, tin is present in the raw material used as feedstock and therefore its extraction is part of our production process.
Ferro-Niobium
Niobium is often used in small quantities to improve the quality of steel. It is essential to the automotive industry as well as structural applications, such as in the construction of buildings and gas pipelines. Around 120,000 tons of niobium are produced around the world every year.
Ferro-Tantalum
With high corrosion resistance, tantalum is indispensable in advanced technologies. This metal is extensively used in the electronics and aerospace industries, especially in devices that require great durability, and has a global annual production of 2,400 tons.
Ferro-Tin
The global tin market exceeds 400,000 tons per year and half of all tin produced worldwide is used in soldering electronics and semiconductors, making it a key component in the manufacturing of modern electronic devices.