Course Description
The lithium-ion battery supply chain depends on the processing and refining of battery minerals — lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite — to the exacting purity that battery manufacture demands. This specialised course develops an understanding of battery minerals processing, one of the fastest-growing areas in the mineral processing industry.
Participants learn the processing and refining routes for the key battery minerals, from ore or brine through to battery-grade chemicals, the purity requirements of the battery supply chain, and the sustainability and recycling dimensions. The course equips metallurgists, process engineers, and technical professionals to understand the battery minerals value chain that underpins the energy transition.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the battery minerals value chain
- Describe lithium processing from spodumene and brine
- Understand nickel and cobalt processing for batteries
- Understand manganese and graphite for batteries
- Explain battery-grade purity requirements
- Understand precursor and cathode material basics
- Address sustainability in battery minerals
- Understand battery recycling and secondary supply
How the course is delivered
The course combines battery minerals processing routes with battery supply chain context and sustainability. Participants explore the processing and refining of each key battery mineral through realistic value-chain examples.
The programme balances processing understanding with the purity requirements and sustainability dimensions of the battery minerals supply chain.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Metallurgists and process engineers
- Battery supply chain professionals
- Critical minerals project professionals
- Energy transition specialists
- Anyone in the battery minerals value chain
Daily programme
- The lithium-ion battery supply chain
- Key battery minerals overview
- From mine to battery
- Battery-grade purity requirements
- Lithium from spodumene
- Lithium from brine
- Lithium refining to battery grade
- Lithium chemicals
- Nickel processing for batteries
- Cobalt processing and refining
- Manganese for batteries
- Graphite processing
- Precursor and cathode materials basics
- Sustainability in battery minerals
- Battery recycling and secondary supply
- Workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
