PROCESS EXPERIENCE
With over 40 years of industry experience in processing of metallic and non-metallic ore bodies from rock through to refined products URE can help you arrive at the optimal process for turning your ore into profit.
GOLD
Heap Leach
Refractory ores
Gravity gold recovery
Comminution Circuits
CIP and CIL (including leaching, elution, electrowinning)
Biological Oxidation and Leaching
Intensive Cyanidation
High Pressure Leaching
Resin in Pulp
Tailings Retreatment
Plant Operations
LITHIUM
Ore Sorting
Comminution and Pre-treatment
Flotation (Spodumene, Petalite, Lepidolite)
Due diligence of mothballed Spodumene plant (Flotation, Roasting and Carbonate circuits)
Lithium Carbonate Production
Lithium Hydroxide Production (Including Patented process for direct Hydroxide production)
Electro-dialysis of Lithium Sulphate to Lithium Hydroxide
Lithium Metal
RARE EARTHS
Ore Sorting
Comminution and Pre-treatment
Gravity Concentration
Flotation
Acid and Alkali Leaching of mixed concentrate (Including impurity removal, mixed RE production, REE separation, reagent recovery)
Acid Baking
Caustic Cracking
URANIUM
Alkaline Ore Up-grading
Comminution and Pre-treatment
In-situ Leaching
Project Evaluation and Due Diligence
Alkali Leaching to U3O8 Precipitation- First modern Alkali Leach plant
Alkali leaching in Saline Water
Acid Leaching to U3O8 Precipitation- First modern Leach plant to use Resin in Pulp technology
Filtration, SX and Precipitation
Plant Operations
PLATINUM GROUP METALS
Mineral Flotation
Plant Operations
Gravity Concentration
Comminution
Smelting (Including Pelletizing, Submerged Arc Furnaces and Pierce Smith Converters)
Due Diligence
HEAVY MINERALS - SAND & HARD ROCK
Mineral Sands Concentration (Wet and Dry Circuits)
Hard Rock Ore Processing
Zircon Flotation
Zircon leaching for Zirconium
Zirconium Chemicals Production
Due Diligence- “Wet” and “Dry” Sands Plants
BASE METALS
Antimony Ore Plant Operations
Antimony Trioxide Production: Plant Operations
Copper Ores (Oxide and Sulphide)
Cobalt/Nickel Ores
Zinc Ores
Tin Ores
Tin Tailings Retreatment
Ilmenite/Magnetite- Concentration and Smelting
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
Nepheline Syenite
Sodium/Potassium Feldspars
Fluorspar
Plant Operations
TAILINGS AND WATER TREATMENT
Processing of AMD and Waste Streams
Metals Extraction and Production
Tailings Retreatment (Gold and Base Metals)
