Why Cobalt Blue?

Project Infinity has emerged as an exciting growth workstream with important implications for Cobalt Blue.

Validating the Technology

For more than five years, Cobalt Blue has been developing and refining its proprietary hydrometallurgical processing technology at the Broken Hill Technology Centre. That work has been central to advancing KCR. The flowsheet has evaluated various cobalt feedstocks, and successfully separated cobalt from iron, manganese, copper, nickel, zinc, magnesium and calcium.

Project Infinity applies the proprietary flowsheet fundamentals to polymetallic nodules, a manganese-iron feedstock. The flowsheet will recover manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper. The scale up from KCR to Project Infinity is x20 on feed throughput capacity. Hence, the success of KCR opens up a much larger growth opportunity for the refinery technology platform into the USA, and strengthens the investment case for KCR.

Two Projects, One Strategy

Project Infinity and the Kwinana Cobalt Refinery are complementary parts of the same strategy. KCR remains the primary objective. But Project Infinity validates the technology behind it, builds Cobalt Blue's international profile, and opens commercial pathways that ultimately advance the same goal: establishing Cobalt Blue as a leading critical-minerals processing company with a long-term role in the global battery supply chain.