Battrace Project

battrace is business finland co-innovation project that will examine methods by which production chains can be monitored and certified in both metals industry and other sectors. another method supporting the tracing of metals is a fingerprint unique to the ore from a specific region, which is expected to be conserved in metals throughout the processing chain. the fingerprint refers to, for example, atom-level observations made on the composition of materials. such features as the various forms of metal atoms, isotopes, may reveal its origin. the fingerprint may also indicate the share of recycled metals, which may become important at the phase when battery metals return to circulation in significant proportions. “in the project, we examine the mineralogical and geochemical fingerprints of ore and their conservation from ore to product,” says quentin dehaine, post-doctoral researcher from the geological survey of finland. in addition to the origin of metals, another factor affect