Mineral are extracted from ores via various methods such as agitated leaching, heap leaching, or bioleaching mechanism to separate the mineral from the bulk of gangue minerals. Solvent extraction (SX) purifies and upgrades the pregnant leach solution (PLS) produced by the leaching operation to generate an electrolyte from which high quality mineral cathode can be electrowon. Our various chemistry products for your leaching, solvent extraction, and electrowinning process are your solution to maximizing your mineral recovery.
Mineral recovery in an agitated leaching process can sometimes be hindered by clay minerals that raises the viscosity of the slurry and reduces the mineral recovery. Such as the case for heap leaching processes, the leaching solutions may sometimes penetrate only the stacked ore surfaces and reduce the maximum potential for mineral recoveries from the process. Our POWERLEACH™ Leaching Aid is your choice to maximize your mineral recovery for various leaching methods.
Solvent extraction is used in order to increase the purity of the mineral bearing electrolyte solutions prior to the electrowinning process. Pregnant Liquor is contacted with an organic phase containing a mineral specific organic extractant. Our POWER SOLVEX™ organic extractant products complexes with the mineral, resulting in the transfer of the metal ion from the aqueous phase into the organic phase, leaving all other impurity species present in the PLS in the aqueous phase.
As mineral refiners move to higher current loading in an electrowinning cell to increase production rates, the need for robust smoothing aids to sustain LME grade A quality copper cathode will become acute. Our POWER WINNAID™ Electrowinning Aid is proven to effectively regulate the electrodeposition of various minerals on lead. is more effective than many natural polymers, providing better initial plate formation through the creation of more nucleation sites.
Mineral are extracted from ores via various methods such as agitated leaching, heap leaching, or bioleaching mechanism to separate the mineral from the bulk of gangue minerals. Solvent extraction (SX) purifies and upgrades the pregnant leach solution (PLS) produced by the leaching operation to generate an electrolyte from which high quality mineral cathode can be electrowon. Our various chemistry products for your leaching, solvent extraction, and electrowinning process are your solution to maximizing your mineral recovery.