DOMESTIC
CRITICAL MINERAL
EXTRACTION
Scale into in-country extraction, refining, and offtake relationships for lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, precious metals, and rare earths. We bypass traditional global supply chains, ensuring that traceable, high-yield feedstock becomes a foundational national resilience asset.
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The Extraction Process
1. High-Grade Procurement
Targeting deep-value e-waste streams, particularly enterprise servers and high-density PCBs rich in precious and critical metals.
2. Mechanical Shredding
Advanced mechanical liberation using inert atmosphere shredding to prevent oxidation and ensure maximum material separation safely.
3. Hydrometallurgical Refining
Eco-friendly solvent extraction processes to dissolve and target specific metallic elements without the carbon footprint of traditional smelting.
4. Pure Mineral Yield
Harvesting 99.9% pure Gold (Au), Silver (Ag), Palladium (Pd), and Copper (Cu) ready for immediate market injection.
5. Market Re-entry
Injecting these conflict-free, domestically sourced critical minerals back into the supply chain for the next generation of electronics.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is urban mining? +
Urban mining is the process of recovering valuable metals and critical minerals — including gold, silver, palladium, copper, lithium, and cobalt — from electronic waste such as discarded servers, smartphones, and circuit boards. It creates a domestic supply of conflict-free critical minerals without traditional mining.
Which minerals does EcoLogic recover? +
Our Phase 2 program targets lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, gold (Au), silver (Ag), palladium (Pd), and rare earth elements from high-density enterprise e-waste streams including PCBs and server hardware.
Is this service currently available? +
Urban Mining is EcoLogic's Phase 2 / future roadmap initiative — not a current active service. EcoLogic currently operates CPCB-authorized e-waste collection, certified data destruction, and EPR compliance services. Offtake partnerships for the urban mining phase can be initiated now to secure your position.