The hour-long visit allowed Cobalt Blue to comprehensively update the Senator on the Company’s activities and future plans. This included an overview of the Broken Hill Cobalt Project, the Technology Centre (namely its new research and development focus on testing critical minerals feedstocks including recycled battery black mass processing, and upcoming testwork for the Halls Creek copper-zinc-silver project), and the relationship between these projects and the Company’s proposed Kwinana Cobalt Refinery.
Senator Ayres’ visit followed his announcement on Thursday, 3 July, that the Company’s Broken Hill Cobalt Project had been granted a three-year extension to its Major Project Status.