Copper miners are turning to vast waste piles, novel extraction technologies and even bacterial “bugs” in an effort to ...

Endolith has reported a major advance in copper extraction as it pushes the frontiers of microbial science. In collaboration with BHP’s (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP) innovation arm, Think & Act ...

Titan Resources, the Australian-based nickel producer, has recently confirmed the economics of its BioHeap process, following a pre-feasibihty cost analysis of the exploration of two small low-grade ...

Rio Tinto Ltd, Freeport-McMoRan Inc and other global miners, spurred by rising prices and demand, are deploying a raft of new leaching technologies that can extract low concentrations of copper from ...

Bacterial-assisted leaching of uranium from the Haggan uranium deposit in central Sweden may be technically feasible, would-be developer Aura Energy has announced. Initial work has shown that the ...