<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/F102F459-CDAC-4064-90B4-BDC5EE5669D9" ns1:id="F102F459-CDAC-4064-90B4-BDC5EE5669D9"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/3D39C861-3992-4781-9A9C-1B9DCE566BF4" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/45780C19-76BF-4867-95BC-C5DAD3733BBF" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/6B38E5C2-503A-40D7-BA52-9CF4CA282E3B" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/B0E3DC1A-F645-48E1-9A54-82D8521B4DB4" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/45780C19-76BF-4867-95BC-C5DAD3733BBF" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2026-12-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/CF46EC16-C34F-4E3E-98F6-D3F0B9D52A3B" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2024-08-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10121616</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Selective Recovery and Refining of Critical Minerals from E-waste and Battery System Feedstock</ns2:title><ns2:status>Active</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Missions</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Industrial Research into the targeted extraction of PGMs and critical minerals, such as, cobalt, nickel and lithium from E-waste and Battery Systems. Building on The Royal Mint's successful scaling of Excir's novel chemical technology to extract gold from E-waste, this project aims to boarded the scope of metals that can be extracted from E-waste, Battery Systems and other Critical Mineral rich end of life feedstocks. The project aims to create commercially scalable solutions to enhance the circularity of these critical minerals.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>