American Resources Corporation's ReElement Technologies Successfully Refines Lithium Brine Feedstock Through its Powered By ReElement Service Offering

Lithium brine feedstocks provides abundant opportunities to collaborate with innovative partners across the critical battery mineral supply chain

Powered by ReElement is a value-added offering for specific separation and purification of critical and rare earth elements optimizing existing processing techniques to now include direct lithium extraction for lithium brines

FISHERS, IN / ACCESSWIRE / May 14, 2024 / American Resources Corporation's (NASDAQ:AREC) ("American Resources" or the "Company") wholly owned subsidiary, ReElement Technologies Corporation, ("ReElement") a leading provider of high performance refining capacity of rare earth and critical battery elements, announced today that it has successfully separated and purified lithium from feedstocks derived from lithium brine sources. As such, the Company has expanded its Powered by ReElement service offering to include integration into direct lithium extraction ("DLE") flow sheets.

By utilizing ReElement's advanced and patented separation and purification refining platform, firms engaged in direct lithium extraction can streamline removal of divalent elements after brine concentration steps and significantly reduce the chemicals needed within legacy brine purification, offering a simplified flow sheet with reduced capital expenditure. ReElement Technologies has been collaboratively working with various direct lithium extraction technology providers to process lithium brine feedstocks that have gone through a DLE concentration processes in conjunction with its newly-launched Powered By ReElement service offering. The Company established the Powered By ReElement platform to focus on inline partnerships with other critical and rare earth mineral processors, recyclers or refiners that need to optimize certain components of their separation and purification process.

Mark Jensen, CEO of ReElement Technologies, states, "We again applaud our technical team for continuing to make groundbreaking progress with our unique and patented critical minerals separation and purification methods as well as driving optimization and efficiencies throughout our entire process. Over the past several months, we've been collaborating with a number of entities around the world that are at different phases of attempting to operate and scale traditional hydrometallurgical and/or solvent-based extraction processes, but are becoming frustrated and aware of their challenges including the lack of versatility, the costs and the lack of scalability of such facilities. Additionally, we have also had the opportunity to begin collaborating with innovative DLE companies to showcase the efficacy and our value added approach in separating and purifying lithium brine feedstocks that have gone through an extraction and/or concentration step. DLE has the potential to make a significant impact to the rapidly growing lithium market with the implementation of capturing lithium from brines. Our advanced separation and purification technology has the potential to significantly reduce the cost structure of the DLE process and to purify and refine into battery grade products. Our advanced refining process makes the separation and purification step the lowest cost component of the overall refining process and enables the platform to scale over time as production increases, which makes it highly efficient and globally competitive. We are excited to now share our complementary product offering to the lithium brine market and to broaden our critical mineral feedstocks which also include concentrated ores, end-of-life magnets and black mass (shredded lithium-ion battery cathode). All of these feedstocks allow us to produce battery cell-grade (99.9%), magnet grade (99.5%+) or ultra-pure niobium and other critical metals at ultra-high purity of 99.999% products. Our goal is to establish an efficient and effective worldwide supply chain which also includes closing the loop and being able to refine products outside of the current monopoly that exists in the world."