Comstock Metals, a subsidiary of Virginia City, Nevada-based Comstock Inc., is preparing to begin operations in June at its Silver Springs, Nevada, commercial-scale solar panel recycling facility.
“Comstock, along with our integrators and installation teams, has now received substantially all our equipment, including power generation, expansive storage capacity and upgrades for offtake products, as we complete commissioning and look forward to operations in June,” says Fortunato Villamagna, president of Comstock Metals. “We have already tested the first unit operation and will continue moving through each unit operation as we assemble, complete and start operating the plant this quarter.”
Additionally, he says the company has designed an industrial tailings recovery solution to enable a closed-loop process to recover silver and other critical metals from industrial tailings…