The test center capabilities will be continuously developed with the goal of covering the full minerals value chain to support the mining industry worldwide.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers explain that the new battery architecture uses aluminum and sulphur as its two electrode materials.
The company estimates it will take three years to permit and build the graphite manufacturing facility and on average, the plant would produce about 49,615 tonnes of anode material per year.
A recent report shows that the development of climate change mitigation technology in the mining industry has been influenced by both the Paris Agreement and commodity price trends.
The restart plan involves de-bottlenecking and completing critical capital projects and building up stope ore inventory to achieve a more efficient ramp up.
The facility will make Rio the first primary aluminium producer in North America to incorporate recycled post-consumer aluminium into aluminium alloys.
