Lithium Extraction

Fluoromet’s lithium refining process is a next-generation solution engineered to extract maximum value from Australia’s hard rock resources - specifically spodumene concentrate.

Traditional refining focuses only on the ~1.5% lithia content in pegmatite ore and discards over 98.5% of the material—including valuable co-products like silica, alumina, tantalum and rubidium, to name a few. When combined with beneficiation losses commonly exceeding 50%, this approach represents one of the most wasteful and carbon-intensive stages in the global electric vehicle supply chain.

Today’s reality

The cost of producing either spodumene concentrate or LCE is nearly double their current market prices. The model is broken. It’s unsustainable.

The Fluoromet Advantage

Fluoromet changes the game.
We operate at the midstream of the battery materials supply chain—receiving spodumene concentrate at proposed portside refining facilities and applying a novel low-temperature, ambient-pressure refining process. This system separates and purifies multiple high-value material streams, including:

  • Lithium carbonate – precursor for EV battery cathodes

  • Ultra-high purity silica – used in solar glass, green cement, and advanced manufacturing

  • Aluminium hydroxide – a “red mud–free” precursor for aluminium production via smelting

  • Strategic and critical metals – Including tantalum, rubidium, and rare earth elements for use in defence, aerospace, electronics, and other advanced technology industries

By unlocking the full material value of spodumene concentrate, Fluoromet enables a cleaner, more efficient, and commercially viable model for domestic refining.

Major Benefits:

  • Recovers ~90% of lithium content from spodumene concentrate.

  • Unlocks value from alumina, tantalum, and other critical minerals

  • Operates at low temperature and ambient pressure

Maximum Recovery. Minimal Waste. Full-Value Capture.

Fluoromet’s platform isn’t just a better process —
It’s a blueprint for a future-proof lithium industry.
More yield, lower costs, near-zero waste, and drastically reduced environmental impact.

This is how Australia can reclaim its position as a global leader in lithium — not just in mining, but in refining, innovation, and value creation.

Rare Earth Elements

Redefining How Rare Earths Are Refined

Fluoromet’s expansion into Rare Earth Elements marks a breakthrough in the sustainable recovery of strategic materials essential to the global energy, defence, and technology sectors.
Our process is ecologically compatible and cost-competitive, enabling rare earth refining to be brought back onshore — reversing current practices of sending these materials to China — cleanly, efficiently, and at dramatically lower cost.

The Challenge

Today, more than 90% of the world’s REE refining occurs in China, despite the Western world holding roughly half of global reserves. Conventional processes rely on high-temperature, high-pressure chemical extraction that produces significant waste streams and radioactive by-products.
This dependency represents not only an environmental concern but a major strategic vulnerability across supply chains for EV motors, wind turbines, advanced electronics, and defence systems.

The Fluoromet Advantage

Fluoromet’s Resource Maximisation Process operates through a modular, closed-loop refining system designed to selectively separate and purify rare earth elements — including neodymium (Nd), praseodymium (Pr), dysprosium (Dy), and terbium (Tb) — from ores, concentrates, and tailings.
This advanced approach enables multi-element recovery from a single feedstock, producing magnet-grade oxides alongside valuable co-products such as lithium, alumina, silica, and tantalum.

Our process:

  • Operates under ambient temperature and pressure

  • Recovers both light and heavy REEs with exceptional selectivity

  • Produces minimal waste and near-zero emissions

  • Recycles all reagents in a closed-loop circuit

Powering Next-Generation Magnets and Motors

The result is a clean, secure, and commercially viable pathway for producing high-purity rare earth oxides used in the manufacture of permanent magnets — the critical components driving electric vehicles, wind turbines, aerospace systems, and advanced defence technologies.
By replacing high-impact legacy methods with a modular, low-emission, and high-yield refining solution, Fluoromet is enabling a new era of sustainable, sovereign capability for the materials that power the modern world.

Clean Chemistry. Full-Value Recovery. Strategic Capability.

Fluoromet is redefining rare earth refining — transforming tailings into opportunity and restoring industrial independence through innovation

Ultra-Pure Natural Graphite

To build truly sustainable lithium-ion batteries, the world must transition from synthetic to natural graphite high-performance anodes.

Synthetic graphite currently dominates today’s anode market — but it comes at a steep environmental cost. Its production involves heating petroleum coke to over 2,500°C for prolonged periods, generating up to 22 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent for every tonne of anode material produced.

The Smarter Alternative: Natural Graphite

Natural graphite is abundant, cost-effective, and globally available.
However, to meet the performance standards of modern battery manufacturers, it must be engineered to exacting specifications — including purification to 5N (99.999%+), as well as precise sizing and morphology control.

Fluoromet’s Breakthrough Graphite Refining

Fluoromet’s advanced refining platform produces ultra-pure natural graphite suitable for next-generation battery applications — at lower cost and with dramatically lower environmental impact.

Our process:

  • Operates at low temperature and ambient pressure

  • Eliminates the need for extreme heat

  • Produces minimal inert tailings

  • Recycles all reagents in a closed-loop system

  • Adjusts size and morphology to meet battery-grade specifications

We deliver a midstream commodity — fully purified and ready for coating by downstream anode manufacturers.

The result? Up to 90% lower GHG emissions than synthetic graphite — with exceptional purity, consistency, and performance.

Proven Purity. Independently Validated.

Independent Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS) confirms that Fluoromet-purified natural graphite meets — and exceeds — international battery-grade specifications.

Powering Next Generation Energy Storage

Fluoromet is enabling a new era of clean, cost-effective anode materials.

Ultra-Pure. Ultra-Efficient. Ultra-Sustainable.

Let’s build better batteries — from the ground up.