U.S. Facing Supply Risk for Electrolytic Manganese Metal – Part One

MetalMiner reported that the United States is facing the risk of inadequate electrolytic manganese supply.

As quoted in the market news:

 Electrolytic manganese is used as an alloying element in aluminum and copper alloys, as a colorant in bricks, and combined with lithium or nickel in batteries. Indeed, its use in lithium-ion manganese batteries is its fastest and potentially most challenging application — if the US cannot access competitively priced and reliable supplies of manganese, a host of high-tech new applications will be lost to foreign competitors.

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