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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-018287"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABAT"
cik: "0001576873"
company_name: "AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co"
filed_at: "2025-10-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:32:58.964145+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tonopah Flats Lithium PFS delivers $2.57B NPV, 21.8% IRR; resources jump 53%

## Summary
- PFS metrics: 30,000 tpa LHM for 45-year life; after-tax NPV@8% $2.57B, IRR 21.8%, 7.5-yr payback.
- Measured & Indicated resources up 53% to 15.78M tonnes LHM equiv.; first reserves of 2.73M tonnes LHM proven & probable.
- Production cost reduced 9.2% to $4,307/tonne LHM; initial capex $2.0B; grade at refinery input 2,100 ppm Li.
- Project selected for FAST-41 fast-track permitting; $900M low-cost debt financing LOI from US EXIM Bank in April 2025.
- Next step: Definitive Feasibility Study ($5.8-6.8M) to advance commercialization; pilot plant commissioned in 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-018287
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABAT
- cik: 0001576873
- company_name: AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co
- filed_at: 2025-10-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315225018287/0001493152-25-018287-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315225018287/form8-k.htm

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