Mark Urbani joined Renewable Metals as Chief Technology Officer in July 2023. He specialises in developing, piloting, and designing leaching and solvent extraction technology. After his first job at an acid-based nickel refinery near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, Mark discovered the elegance of alkali-based extraction at Cawse Nickel. Since then, he has continued to develop novel processes and pilot extraction programs for base metals, like nickel, copper, cobalt and vanadium as well as helping scale-up novel lithium extraction technology. Before inventing our unique process, Mark also developed and piloted acid-based battery recycling processes.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Applied Chemistry from Curtin University and a post-Graduate Diploma in Extractive Metallurgy from the Western Australian School of Mines.
