Metals recovery from mining ores using bacteria

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One of the biggest problems of mining company is how to make mining operations efficient;  ie recover most of the metals and without toxicity and harmful effect on the environment.  Recovery from mining ores uses toxic chemicals like cyanide and harms the water supply and water and marine life.

Enters nature hardworking miners - bacteria.

I hope PHILEX in the PHL knows about this technology

But not so with Talavivaara Mining in Europe.  In just 27 months 78% of the metals were recovered.

Know more about the bacteria miners at Talvivaara mining

The rare and precious metals that are found in this mines include:  copper, chromium, vanadium, zinc, molybdenum (useful in nuclear reactors), uranium, lithium (major component of electronic equipment batteries, and vanadium.   Investment in this company is  good investment.  Could be a six bagger.

Rare earth metals and new method of metals recovery

Ateneo Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Nick Hodges of Energy and capital wrote about new method of metals recovery. Talvivaara Mining has such a unique process:

l.  Ore is mined and stacked in a heap pad;

2.  Bacteria is sprinkled onto the ore;   water makes the bacteria seep into the ore,   fans feed more of the bacteria into the ore.

3.  Bacteria eats into the ore;  and releases chemicals that eat into the ore;

4.  Metals are recovered, and the solutions coming from the process are sent back to the ore heap.

With a little help from nature.

Investing into this kind of mining means access to precious metals and rare earth.  For example, electric cars, the wave of the future would require plenty of battery power, coming from lithium, a rare earth element, (REE)

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