A NEW research facility designed to test minerals processes
has been launched by Murdoch University’s Parker Centre.
The facility will initially test a more environmentally
friendly alternative to the current cyanide process for extracting gold from
its ores.
The Parker Centre’s hydrometallurgy research pilot plant is
intended to bridge the gap between a laboratory and a commercial scale
industrial processing plant, allowing trials of existing processes without the
cost and risk of experimenting on the full scale.
The Parker Centre is the world’s largest publicly-funded
hydro-metallurgy research organisation.