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The U.S. Department of Energy has reinstated American Battery Technology Co.’s canceled $57 million grant meant to help build a lithium refinery in Tonopah Flats, Nevada.
American Battery announced on Monday it won its appeal process with the agency and will continue with plans to build the $115 million commercial-scale refinery to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide.
The facility, expected to have a capacity of 5,000 metric tons a year, is part of a larger lithium mining project meant to operate along with the company’s battery recycling efforts.
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