HEAP LEACH OPTIMIZATION
GSA has extensive experience in characterizing and monitoring solution and air-flow to optimize heap leach design and operations. Our successes include installing some of the first large-scale heap-leach monitoring systems in North and South America, groundbreaking research on flow in gravelly materials, and the development of integrated laboratory, field and modeling methods to evaluate heap leach fluid dynamics and metal recovery. GSA is also unique in that we operate an unsaturated flow laboratory that specializes in characterizing mine waste and heap leach material. We have conducted extensive research and developed advanced laboratory methods to predict solution behavior and air flow in heap leach environments.
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- Ore Permeability Assessment and Heap Leach Characterization, Elko, Nevada, Bald Mountain Mine
- In-situ ROM Heap Leach Characterization and Monitoring, Chile
- Ore Permeability Assessment, Minera Cerro Corona, Peru, Minera Cerro Corona
- Ore Permeabiity Assessment, Pampa Norte, Chile, BHP Billiton
- Solution and Air Flow Dynamics Evaluation, Arizona
- Integrated Heap Leach Characterization and Optimization, Nevada USA, Cortez Gold Mines
- Hydrogeologic Characterization of an Active Heap Leach Facility, Chile, Minera Cerro Colorado
- Experimental Heap Leach Performance Evaluation, Chile
- Copper Heap Leach Characterization and Process Improvement Program, Chile