It isn’t hard to do… according to Clareo’s Satish Rao and Grant Caffery, who were recently headlined in an Australian Mining Monthly article by Noel Dyson. This is a far-reaching look at an intransigent issue that’s unique to mining, and is also set to increase exponentially, thanks to future demand spikes and deeper, lower-grade mining. Clareo are looking at the problem from five perspectives: optimise recovery, eliminate waste, process everything, transform leaching and recover through in-situ extraction.
This article outlines several promising initiatives already underway, with the message that although the pressure to decarbonize may be slightly lessened currently, there’s no stopping work towards this goal.
