Battery Recycling & Materials Recovery worked example

Recovered Metal Value at 94% payable assay or recovery share: a worked example

Push payable assay or recovery share up to 94% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a battery recycler needs to estimate revenue from black mass, refined salts, metal fractions, or recovered commodity streams

The inputs for this scenario

  • Recovered metal mass: 4,200 kg (unchanged)
  • Metal value per kg: 18.5 $ / kg (unchanged)
  • Payable assay or recovery share: 94 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 82)
  • Fixed premium or lot value adder: 3,500 $ (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Payable metal value = recovered metal mass × metal value per kg × payable assay or recovery share) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 76,538 $ for estimated recovered metal value, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 18.22 $ / kg for recovered value per kg.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 73,038 $ for payable metal value.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 3,500 $ for fixed premium or lot value adder.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where payable assay or recovery share sits at 82% and the headline result is 67,214 $, this scenario comes in 13.87% above the baseline at 76,538 $.
  • It computes estimated recovered metal value by applying a payable assay or recovery share to mass times price, then adding a fixed lot premium. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Estimated recovered metal value: 76,538 $ (headline result)
  • Recovered value per kg: 18.22 $ / kg
  • Payable metal value: 73,038 $
  • Fixed premium or lot value adder: 3,500 $

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Recovered Metal Value calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.