You won't find a 'mining' operation that is producing cobalt sulphate, the ingredient used in Li-on batteries. It's the next part of the value-add chain, and is a separate operation / plant / factory.
Consider lithium as an example;
hard rock spodumene is mined, then goes through a plant at minesite and is concentrated to 6% Li20 or spodumene concentrate 6.0.
That spodumene concentrate is then taken by 'battery mineral producers' and converted into lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate, a completely different product that sells for about 20x the price. These are the deals for 'downstream processing' that PLS et al all want in on, the full chain of mining/concentrating/processing.
As i understand it, we produce cobalt concentrate at site (or walvis), but it's a completely separate operation to then take this and convert it into cobalt sulphate. i.e. we'll be producing the cobalt equivalent of spodumene concentrate.
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