MMG Proposed BFD – July 2022

The MMg technical process follows well known thermal and chemical process routes for the separation of the metals ordered to achieve the optimal recovery rates for the minerals being extracted.   A combination of mechanical, hydro and thermos chemical process steps result in the extraction of Cr, Mg and Ca streams from the waste feedstock.
MMg has followed these routes from  the outset of its project works and which culminated in a CPR on its process as verified by SRK (UK) Ltd in Report U7031 – May 2020).    The process remains the same remains through Project EU Magnesium with the focus on converting the MgO to MgCl2 and the reducing this to a Mg metal.
This is a well-known process route and commercially used in the US Mag and Dead Sea Minerals plants.   This was the method employed in the Pechiney and Nordsk Hydro Plants 20 years ago in Europe so no real novelty other than the feed stock material being a waste mineral.   On the chrome side the more complex route using expensive reagents is converted to a thermal reduction process using a more sophisticated furnace and removing the need for expensive reagents.
Starting from a mined and calcined waste mineral source will ensure a significant reduction in the CO2 footprint and the Project EU Magnesium allows the potential risks associated with the feed stock to be mitigated.