Can this handle multiple metals?

Run one scenario per metal or use a blended price and payable share for the combined stream.

Where do impurity penalties go?

Reduce the payable share for proportional penalties, or model fixed penalties separately as processing or settlement costs.

What belongs in the fixed value adder?

Use it for fixed premiums, minimum settlement value, tolling credits, or added lot value not captured by the per-kg price.

How can I use the result?

Use it to compare sale routes, update lot value, support procurement offers, or evaluate process recovery improvements.

Battery Recycling & Materials Recovery calculator

Recovered Metal Value Calculator

Recovered metal value is driven by mass, assay, recovery, payable terms, and commodity prices for lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, copper, aluminum, graphite, and other fractions. This calculator helps commercial and process teams turn recovered mass into an estimated settlement value.

What this calculator does

Estimate payable recovered metal value from recovered metal mass, price per kg, payable assay or recovery share, and fixed lot value adders.
a battery recycler needs to estimate revenue from black mass, refined salts, metal fractions, or recovered commodity streams
Returns estimated commercial value for a recovered metal or material stream.

Formula used

Payable metal value = recovered metal mass × metal value per kg × payable assay or recovery share
Estimated recovered metal value = payable metal value + fixed premium or lot value adder

Inputs explained

Recovered metal mass: Use recovered lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, copper, aluminum, graphite, or payable contained metal mass.
Metal value per kg: Use contract price, index price, netback value, or expected recovered material sale price.
Payable assay or recovery share: Use payable metal percentage after assay, moisture, impurity, refining, and recovery assumptions.
Fixed premium or lot value adder: Add fixed lot value, premiums, tolling credits, or minimum settlement value not captured per kg.

How to use the result

Use it for black mass quotes, metal fraction sales, hydrometallurgy output, and route comparison models.
It depends on preliminary assays, moisture, payable terms, commodity prices, premiums, and customer specifications; separate treatment or penalty deductions should be modeled as costs.

Common questions

Can this handle multiple metals? Run one scenario per metal or use a blended price and payable share for the combined stream.
Where do impurity penalties go? Reduce the payable share for proportional penalties, or model fixed penalties separately as processing or settlement costs.
What belongs in the fixed value adder? Use it for fixed premiums, minimum settlement value, tolling credits, or added lot value not captured by the per-kg price.
How can I use the result? Use it to compare sale routes, update lot value, support procurement offers, or evaluate process recovery improvements.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.