Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP190101230

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP190101230

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Carbon-neutral copper: unlocking metal value through carbon sequestration. This project aims to explore how the concepts of reaction-induced porosity and coupled dissolution-reprecipitation reactions, which have had a profound impact in geosciences, can be exploited in the context of ore processing through carbon sequestration. The project's main outcomes are to generate a new process that maintains porosity in ore, and a combination of lixiviants, for effective Cu metal recovery and Fe capture. This project will benefit the mineral industry by providing an alternative to the current paradigm in Copper mineral processing that requires the destruction of the mineral hosting economic value, thereby developing sustainable mining technologies well suited for the increasingly complex ores being extracted in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 14-01-2021

End Date: 01-09-2024

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $698,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy not elsewhere classified | Inorganic Geochemistry | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mining and Extraction of Copper Ores |

Other Keywords

Inorganic Geochemistry | Mining and Extraction of Copper Ores | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy not elsewhere classified

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