Welcome to Lava Blue: Providing high purity, high value speciality materials for the energy transition.
Lava Blue is developing processes for manufacturing very high purity materials needed for the energy transition.
Lava Blue's first product is High Purity Alumina, a highly specialized material that Lava Blue can produce from various aluminum sources
The Lava Blue HPA process can accept a wide variety of aluminium rich feedstocks including kaolin clay and mine wastes.
We are investing in ways to process cobalt, manganese, silicon metal, and other high-value elements, including some from mine wastes
Lava Blue has developed a portfolio of highly prospective exploration and mining permits across Queensland.
Lava Blue is investing in the use of machine learning for critical mineral research, modelling and processing.
Lava Blue has been methodically de-risking the scale up of proprietary processes for manufacturing High Purity Alumina. A cornerstone asset of the company is our research, development and demonstration plant in Brisbane that allows us to scale and perfect HPA production and test methods, and to develop options for downstream value adding to HPA.
Develop commercially valuable core intellectual property
Develop and demonstrate new products for licensees
Collaborate and align with best-in-class
Lava Blue engages the services of approximately 25 FTE postgraduate, doctoral and professorial level researchers and advisors at Queensland University of Technology.
Facilities at QUT dedicated to the Lava Blue project include fully equipped laboratory space and access to the world class instrumentation at QUT’s Analytical Research Facility.
We are value adding HPA by developing expertise in HPA applications such as manufacturing ceramic coated membranes for battery separators and manufacturing sapphire glass.
99.99+% Pure Alumina production is claimed by some in the market to be relatively simple, but it is very challenging to scale. Lava Blue has been methodically de-risking the scale up of proprietary HPA processes.
Cloncurry Industrial Minerals Pty Ltd (CIM) controls a greater than 7 million tonne high purity quartz resource on the edge of Cloncurry which is presently being studied for suitability to feed asilicon metal smelter using charcoal as the reductant.
