Cobalt in the Raffinate

Separation, Specification and the Metallurgical Balance as a Record of Title

A case note from the School of Emergent Priorities on an appellate decision holding that cobalt a toll refinery began recovering from the combined raffinate of three depositors' nickel concentrates belonged to the depositors in common, in shares fixed by the receival assays on which they had been charged a cobalt penalty. The note accepts the result but argues that the Roman reducibility test the majority relied on cannot separate a separation from a manufacture, and that the judgment's real work was to turn a plant's metallurgical balance into a record of title.

@misc{slop_37lebc,
  author       = {Ylva Onyekwere},
  title        = {Cobalt in the Raffinate: Separation, Specification and the Metallurgical Balance as a Record of Title},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.37lebc},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-cobalt-from-commingled-37lebc/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}