Name: pCAM: A game changer for battery production
Uploaded: 2023-11-08T03:42:51.267Z
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Description: Hear from Marie Cyprien, the COO for Pure Battery Technology, as she presents the WA pCAM Hub project, which aims to produce pCAM material for half a million electric vehicle batteries. Marie discusses the challenges and opportunities in infrastructure development, job creation, and innovation within the battery industry making it an exciting time to join this field.

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Hi, I'm Marie Cyprien.

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I'm the Chief Operating Officer
for Pure Battery Technology.

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I've got a background in the resource
industry for over 15 years now.

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I've joined PBT recently after a career
in quite a varied aspect of the resource

{{00:00:20}}
industry as I've been working in the
consulting world or in the production.

{{00:00:24}}
I was with BHP before so I've had a
chance to really have a look at the

{{00:00:28}}
different aspects of the resource
industry and decided to join PBT as I

{{00:00:33}}
really believe the opportunity that PBT
is bringing to the table in terms of

{{00:00:37}}
really enabling the power of evolution
that is happening at the moment.

{{00:00:52}}
I presented the WA pCAM Hub this morning.

{{00:00:54}}
So this is a project that PBT is
developing in the Coolgardie Shire.

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So we are aiming to basically
develop a hub that will enable to

{{00:01:04}}
produce 50,000 tonne of pCAM material
by the end of 2024, early 2025.

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So 50,000 ton of pCAM material
enables to produce batteries for

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half a million electric vehicle.

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The idea is to basically maximize the
local mines that may not have materials

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suitable for existing refinery.

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Typically that would have a smelter and
we can actually receive this material

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as well as the material from our
partner Poseidon to make a pCAM material

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which is a high end product that can
then be used into battery production.

{{00:01:54}}
At the moment, there's a significant
challenge related to infrastructure.

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The battery industry is booming, and we've
got an amazing opportunity, considering

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the resources that Australia has in
the ground, to really place Australia

{{00:02:07}}
at the forefront of a battery material
producer or even a battery manufacturer.

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But for this to happen, we
really need to be able to

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develop industry really quickly.

{{00:02:19}}
Projects like the pCAM Hub are
significant in that space and we need

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to be able to make them happen now.

{{00:02:25}}
Which require infrastructure and that
includes power, water, roads, all

{{00:02:30}}
of these, and it requires them fast.

{{00:02:32}}
Which unfortunately with the current
shortage of labor and resource across the

{{00:02:37}}
board, it's making this quite challenging.

{{00:02:40}}
In parallel, there's also going
to be the long term accommodation

{{00:02:43}}
challenge which every company and
industry is facing in the area.

{{00:02:58}}
So we have a partnership with Poseidon
which will be supplying at least

{{00:03:03}}
half of the feed that we need for
our first phase of the pCAM hub.

{{00:03:08}}
And that will be our main
concentrate source to start with.

{{00:03:11}}
This actually gives us the opportunity
to keep some capacity for other local

{{00:03:15}}
mines that may have some resource
that they want to have an opportunity

{{00:03:19}}
to be able to process locally and
refine into a high grade material.

{{00:03:35}}
We've commissioned Ernest and Young
to do a model for the hub for us.

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And from this we've identified there's
going to be about a thousand local jobs

{{00:03:44}}
required for the hub, direct and indirect.

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Out of this, this is about 350
jobs for the construction period.

{{00:03:52}}
And I ran the 400 mark for continuous
operations and then there will be a few

{{00:03:58}}
hundreds for indirect positions that will
basically derive from the hub operating.

{{00:04:04}}
So there will be options considering the
current challenges with accommodation.

{{00:04:09}}
We will be very flexible in what we need.

{{00:04:11}}
We would like to obviously support the
community of Coolgardie and develop

{{00:04:16}}
as much as possible a local workforce.

{{00:04:18}}
And we're working very closely
with the community to enable that.

{{00:04:21}}
But we will need to be quite
flexible in terms of enabling people

{{00:04:25}}
and skilled people to join the
workforce from different places.

{{00:04:30}}
So whether we will do FIFO,
residential, we will be looking

{{00:04:34}}
at all of the options that enables
us to get the right workforce.

{{00:04:48}}
There is so much happening at
the moment and we are really in

{{00:04:53}}
a phase where innovation is key.

{{00:04:56}}
And so every day there are new innovation
coming, there are new projects coming.

{{00:05:01}}
It's been so active and changing.

{{00:05:04}}
There couldn't be a better time
for a graduate to be getting

{{00:05:07}}
into the space and learning.

{{00:05:09}}
There is so much to learn,
there is so many opportunities.

{{00:05:12}}
There's also a significant shortage
of resource, so as a graduate you

{{00:05:17}}
actually might have opportunities
to be involved with a lot more than

{{00:05:20}}
you might have been in the past,
because there's just such a high need.

{{00:05:24}}
So it's a really exciting time to
be a graduate at the moment and

{{00:05:27}}
to get involved in this industry.

I'm the Chief Operating Officer
for Pure Battery Technology.

I've got a background in the resource
industry for over 15 years now.

I've joined PBT recently after a career
in quite a varied aspect of the resource

industry as I've been working in the
consulting world or in the production.

I was with BHP before so I've had a
chance to really have a look at the

different aspects of the resource
industry and decided to join PBT as I

really believe the opportunity that PBT
is bringing to the table in terms of

really enabling the power of evolution
that is happening at the moment.

I presented the WA pCAM Hub this morning.

So this is a project that PBT is
developing in the Coolgardie Shire.

So we are aiming to basically
develop a hub that will enable to

produce 50,000 tonne of pCAM material
by the end of 2024, early 2025.

So 50,000 ton of pCAM material
enables to produce batteries for

The idea is to basically maximize the
local mines that may not have materials

Typically that would have a smelter and
we can actually receive this material

as well as the material from our
partner Poseidon to make a pCAM material

which is a high end product that can
then be used into battery production.

At the moment, there's a significant
challenge related to infrastructure.

The battery industry is booming, and we've
got an amazing opportunity, considering

the resources that Australia has in
the ground, to really place Australia

at the forefront of a battery material
producer or even a battery manufacturer.

But for this to happen, we
really need to be able to

Projects like the pCAM Hub are
significant in that space and we need

Which require infrastructure and that
includes power, water, roads, all

Which unfortunately with the current
shortage of labor and resource across the

board, it's making this quite challenging.

In parallel, there's also going
to be the long term accommodation

challenge which every company and
industry is facing in the area.

So we have a partnership with Poseidon
which will be supplying at least

half of the feed that we need for
our first phase of the pCAM hub.

And that will be our main
concentrate source to start with.

This actually gives us the opportunity
to keep some capacity for other local

mines that may have some resource
that they want to have an opportunity

to be able to process locally and
refine into a high grade material.

We've commissioned Ernest and Young
to do a model for the hub for us.

And from this we've identified there's
going to be about a thousand local jobs

required for the hub, direct and indirect.

Out of this, this is about 350
jobs for the construction period.

And I ran the 400 mark for continuous
operations and then there will be a few

hundreds for indirect positions that will
basically derive from the hub operating.

So there will be options considering the
current challenges with accommodation.

We will be very flexible in what we need.

We would like to obviously support the
community of Coolgardie and develop

And we're working very closely
with the community to enable that.

But we will need to be quite
flexible in terms of enabling people

and skilled people to join the
workforce from different places.

So whether we will do FIFO,
residential, we will be looking

at all of the options that enables
us to get the right workforce.

There is so much happening at
the moment and we are really in

And so every day there are new innovation
coming, there are new projects coming.

There couldn't be a better time
for a graduate to be getting

There is so much to learn,
there is so many opportunities.

There's also a significant shortage
of resource, so as a graduate you

actually might have opportunities
to be involved with a lot more than

you might have been in the past,
because there's just such a high need.

So it's a really exciting time to
be a graduate at the moment and

Expert Insight

Hear from Marie Cyprien, the COO for Pure Battery Technology, as she presents the WA pCAM Hub project, which aims to produce pCAM material for half a million electric vehicle batteries. Marie discusses the challenges and opportunities in infrastructure development, job creation, and innovation within the battery industry making it an exciting time to join this field.