2014-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2014 Volume 1: Mining

Editors:Kongoli F
Publisher:Flogen Star OUTREACH
Publication date:20 December 2014
Pages:424 pages
ISBN:978-1-987820-03-4
ISSN:2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series)
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    Phytomining of Platinum Group Metals - major driving forces and new approaches

    John Meech1; Peipei Shi2; Christopher Anderson3;
    1UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver, Canada; 2UBC-MINING, Vancouver, Canada; 3MASSEY UNIVERSITY, Palmerston North, New Zealand;
    Type of Paper: Invited
    Id Paper: 245
    Topic: 1

    Abstract:

    Recent reclamation work on waste and tailings materials from PGM processing operations suggest that phyto-mining is a viable process in certain cases. This paper will describe the process of scheduling phyto-mining within a plan to remediate a waste dump that requires stabilization. The recovery of PGMs can off-set some of the costs of such reclamation activities. The form of the metals recovered into the plant cells suggests that active catalysts can be created without significant downstream processing of the plants.
    Presenter - Ms. Peipei Shi

    Keywords:

    phytomining, Platinum-Group-Metals, waste dump remediation, nano-size metal particles

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    Meech J and Shi P and Anderson C. Phytomining of Platinum Group Metals - major driving forces and new approaches. In: Kongoli F, editors. Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS 2014 Volume 1: Mining. Volume 1. Montreal(Canada): FLOGEN Star Outreach. 2014. p. 333-340.