Development and Optimization of Routes in Mineral Processing

What We Offer

- Development and optimization in mineral processing

- Optimization of existing processes and development of alternative routes

- Development of processes to obtain new products and by-products

- Technologies for ultrafine material processing

- Technologies for dry processing

- Development of sustainable solutions for tailings reuse and reduction of environmental impact

- Development of processes for dewatering, water recovery, and recycling

- Development of processes for tailings utilization

- Technologies for repurposing tailings in higher value-added applications

- Technologies for effluent treatment

- Mineralogical, chemical, physical, and physicochemical characterization

- Technological consulting

Our Facilities

Mineralogical Characterization and Lamination Laboratory

- Petrographic and Mineralogical Characterization: For ornamental stones, industrial minerals, and ores, including semi-quantitative mineralogical analysis, mineral identification, paragenetic association, liberation degree determination, and general petrographic studies.

- Lamination Laboratory: Preparation of polished sections and thin polished sections for microscopic analysis.

Sample Preparation Laboratory

- Sample preparation for mineral processing tests and chemical analysis

- Sample packaging and identification

Grinding and Classification Laboratory

- Work Index (WI) Determination

- Ore grindability tests and grindability curve determination

- Classification through screening, cycloning, and Akins classifier, with both batch and continuous testing

Gravity Concentration Laboratory

- Gravity concentration tests using Wilfley and MMWT tables, spirals, jigs, and dense media

Flotation and Flocculation Laboratory

- Flotation concentration tests in mechanical cells and flotation columns (laboratory and pilot scales)

- Semi-continuous and continuous flocculation tests

Magnetic and Electrostatic Separation Laboratory

- Magnetic separation tests for low, medium, and high-intensity minerals/ores (laboratory and pilot scales)

- Electrostatic separation tests

Leaching, Solvent Extraction, and Pyrometallurgy Laboratory

- Testing for ore and tailings processing, including static leaching (columns) and agitated leaching (bench and pilot scales)

- Hydrometallurgical processes for the recovery of noble and rare metals

- Pyrometallurgical processes for refining noble and rare metals

Multi-process Pilot Mineral Processing Plant

- Pilot-scale testing, including:

- Sample preparation

- Crushing, grinding, and screening

- Gravity concentration

- High and low-intensity magnetic separation

- Cycloning

- Leaching

- Flotation concentration (using conventional cells and columns)

Particle Measurement Laboratory and EDX

- Dry and wet screening tests

- Cyclosizer, X-ray and Laser granulometers

- BET surface area analysis

- Optical microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDX)