Broken FileVault Drive ...

Hi guys,
I'm comming to you having a few issues with my old hard drive.
Basically, my macbook crashed a few days ago. It seems like my disk has some bad sectors and has started a kind of autodestruction process.
The issue I have is that his drive is locked with FileVault ...
I have the master and recovery keys, however, no way to unlock the drive now I've extracted it from my computer.
I managed to unlock my volume and see my locked partition booting in recovery mode from this hard drive, but now I'm running on a new (and clear) HDD, I can't even list the CS groups (the old disk if plugged in USB):
# diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
When I run diskutil info:
# diskutil info /dev/disk2
   Device Identifier:        disk2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk2
   Part of Whole:            disk2
   Device / Media Name:      APPLE HD D HTS547550A9E38 Media
   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)
   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)
   File System:              None
   Content (IOContent):      FDisk_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported
   Total Size:               500.1 GB (500107862016 Bytes) (exactly 976773168 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        4096 Bytes
   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
   Ejectable:                Yes
   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported
It's giving me headache ...
Thanks for your help,
Best,
Thibault.

Hi Linc,
Thanks for your reply.
I unfortunately don't have nay backup ...
I have my mac fixed, but I'm trying to recover the hdd using an external adapter. Is there any way to do it?
If I can unlock the Filevault drive (as I could do in recovery mode), I could restaure some using recovery softwares... but I can't unlock the filevault.
Best,
Thibault.

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