INNOVATION

BioLeach: The nickel industry's new processing revolution?

THE nickel industry has always been innovative when it comes to process technology. Right from the early 1900s when the Orford process was first developed to produce metal, almost without fail every 10 years or so a cheaper or better form of nickel making would come along.

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  At the moment the industry is entranced by the nickel laterite miners and their revolutionary high-pressure acid leach plants. But already a new technology looms on the horizon: Bioleaching. Used...

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