Curtin University, Draslovka partner to advance glycine leaching technology
Non-toxic amino acid has the potential to replace hazardous chemicals like cyanide in mineral extraction processes, Curtin professor says.
FOR some, the Bre-X gold fraud scandal of the 1990s wasn’t all bad.
Before the addition of scrapings of gold jewellery to assays from the Canadian company’s Indonesian deposit was uncovered, the alleged high-grade drill results sent scores of geologists trudging over the country in search of similar deposits.