Benign recovery of precious metals from deep pristine environments

该项目旨在从传统采矿方法无法达到的自然矿床中提取贵金属。甘氨酸-过氧化物系统可以在不污染的情况下溶解贵金属。了解这些系统在天然矿体中的行为，可以找到补充常规采矿的原位浸出方法，特别是在低品位矿床中。本项目拟采用基于探索性、描述性和解释性阶段的现代科学工作流程，对贵金属输运的耦合多物理场进行建模，为原位浸出引入高性能计算策略，制定解释回收机制的实验方案，并提出最大限度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.