Geometallurgy is an interdisciplinary research field concerned with the planning, monitoring,
and optimisation of mineral resource extraction and beneficiation. Geometallurgy relies on a …

The increasing global demand for cobalt, a critical green transition metal, encourages the
development of improved exploration workflows, as Co typically occurs as a by-product of …

Mineral processing encompasses the series of operations used to first liberate the valuable
minerals in an ore by comminution, and then separate the resulting particles by means of …

The raw materials industry produces billions of tonnes of mine waste per year. Given
increasing metal demand and the global appetite for waste reduction, strategic opportunities …

To maximise the value of a mining operation and minimise its environmental and social
impacts, all processes—from the ore deposit to the final product and waste streams—should …

Cobalt is mainly produced globally from Cu-Co sediment-hosted deposits in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. As mining operations progress, oxidic supergene mineralisation …

Metal ores are mineralogically characterised to understand their genesis in order to allow
informed decisions on mineral processing and to recognise likely environmental risks upon …

The increasing demand of raw materials, allied to the tendency of scarcity, increase in
complexity and decreasing in grade of ore deposits requires innovation and advances in the …

Metal ores are mineralogically characterised to understand their genesis in order to allow
informed decisions on mineral processing and to recognise likely environmental risks upon …

This thesis assesses the potential for secondary sourcing of critical and high-tech elements
from the Thalanga mine waste in Northern Queensland and investigates the associated …