Benign recovery of precious metals from deep pristine environments

该项目旨在从常规采矿方法无法达到的自然矿藏中提取贵金属。甘氨酸-过氧化氢体系可以溶解贵金属，而不会造成污染。了解这些系统在天然矿体中的行为，可能会导致补充传统采矿的原地浸出方法，特别是在低品位矿床中。该项目旨在使用以探索、描述和解释阶段为基础的现代科学工作流程来模拟贵金属运输的耦合多物理，引入用于原地浸出的高性能计算策略，开发解释回收机制的实验协议，并提出最大限度地提高生产率的最佳浸出模式。

This project aims to extract precious metals from natural deposits conventional mining methods cannot reach. Glycine-peroxide systems can dissolve precious metals without pollution. Understanding these systems’ behaviour in natural orebodies could lead to in-situ leaching methods that complement conventional mining, especially in low grade deposits. This project intends to use a modern scientific workflow based on exploratory, descriptive and explanatory phases to model the coupled multi-physics of precious metals transport, introduce a high performance computing strategy for in-situ leaching, develop an experimental protocol that explains the recovery mechanisms, and propose optimal leaching patterns that maximise productivity.