Contents & Abstracts - ALTA Metallurgical Services
Contents & Abstracts - ALTA Metallurgical Services
Contents & Abstracts - ALTA Metallurgical Services
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A STUDY INTO THE POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF BIOHEAP TECHNOLOGY<br />
TO FORRESTANIA<br />
By<br />
Jason Fewings<br />
Western Areas NL, Australia<br />
Presenter and Corresponding Author<br />
Jason Fewings<br />
jfewings@westernareas.com.au<br />
ABSTRACT<br />
Western Areas NL is an Australian based nickel miner, with core high grade nickel assets in the<br />
Forrestania region of Western Australia. Aside from the high grade Flying Fox and Spotted Quoll<br />
deposits, Western Areas has interests in a number of deposits in the area, and overseas, and are<br />
currently investigating methods for extracting maximum value from those deposits.<br />
The most advanced of those deposits are the Digger Rocks/Diggers South mine and the New<br />
Morning deposit. One of the alternatives being investigated is a potential bacterial leach utilizing the<br />
BioHeap technology that the company acquired in 2009.<br />
This paper outlines the main nickel assets owned by Western Areas and reports on a scoping study<br />
investigating the bacterial leaching of Forrestania ores, with an emphasis on the New Morning case<br />
study.<br />
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