It is possible to get reusable battlery material from redstone.Candium can be centrifuged from rare earth which is a by product of centrifuging impure redstone dust.
In the Oposite order: Macerate redstone ore, clean the crushed redstone ore(with water), crush the product with any hammer, centrifuge that and you get 1 tiny rare earth. Every full reath earth has some % chance to getyou small candium and otehr goodies.
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