List of bioleaching or biooxidation plants
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Metal | Leaching method | Technique | Plant | Size (t ore/day) | Owner | Concentration (%Me) | Period of operation | Scale |
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Cu | Heap | Lo Aquirre, Chile | 16 000 | Sociedad Minera Pudahel | 1,5 | 1980-1996 | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Mt. Leyshon, Australien | 1370 | Normandy Poseidon | 0,15 | 1992-1995 | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Cerro Colorado, Chile | 16 000 | Rio Algom | 1,4 | 1993- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Girilambone, Australia | 2000 | Straits Resources | About 3 | 1993- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Ivan, Chile | 1500 | Glamis Gold | 2,1 | 1994- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Quebrada Blanca, Chile | 17 300 | Cominco | 1,3 | 1994- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Andacollo, Chile | 16 000 | Dayton Mining | 1 | 1996- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Dos Amigos, Chile | 3000 | Cemin | 2,5 | 1996- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | Zaldivar, Chile | 20 000 | Placer Dome | 1,4 | 1996- | Commercial | |
Cu | Heap | ACL Chuquicamata, Chile | Commercial demonstration | |||||
Polymetallic | heap | Penoles, Mexico | pilot | |||||
Nickel | heap | BioNIC, South Africa | Pilot | |||||
Ni and Cu | heap | Radio Hill, west Australia | Titan Resources NL | |||||
Zn (Sphalerite) | heap | GEOCOAT® | Namibia | Kumba resources and Geobiotics Inc. | ||||
Au | Tank | BIOX® | Fairview, South Africa | 43 | 1986-, expanded 1991, 1999 | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BIOX® | Sao Bento, Brazil | 150 | 1992-, expanded 1994, 1998 | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BIOX® | Harbour Lights, Australia | 40 | 1992-1994 | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BIOX® | Wiluna, Australia | 158 | 1993, expanded 1996 | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BIOX® | Ashanti Sansu, Ghana | 1000 | 1994- | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BACOX® | Youanmi, Australia | 120 | 1994-1998 | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BIOX® | Tamboraque, Peru | 60 | 1998- | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BACOX® | Beaconsfield, Tasmania | 3,2 ton Au/year | 2000- | Commercial | ||
Au | Tank | BACOX® | Laizhou, China | 2 ton Au/year | 2001- | Commercial | ||
Co (from a cobaltic pyrite) | Tank | Kasese, Uganda | 90 000 | Kasese Cobalt Company Ltd | 1,38%, Co (in stockpiles and tailings from previous operation) | 1998-? |