PERTH-based Titan Resources NL has completed construction of a $2.23 million pilot plant for bacterial leaching of its Mt Sholl nickel-copper ore deposit in the Pilbara region of WA.
PERTH-based Titan Resources NL has completed construction of a $2.23 million pilot plant for bacterial leaching of its Mt Sholl nickel-copper ore deposit in the Pilbara region of WA.
Titan managing director Bill Ryan said building of the 5,000 tonne batch pilot plant came after considerable success in laboratory testing of the process.
A trial open cut was completed in December with the pad site for heap leaching of the ore placed near the company’s Radio Hill tailings dam, thirty kilometres south of Karratha.
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