Projects
The following list illustrates the services Arithmetek offers.
- Generation of preliminary capital and operating cost estimates early in the process development cycle
- Simulation of conventional and novel circuits
- Base metal refinery (operating plant, Zimbabwe)
- Nickel laterite project (feasibility study, pilot work)
- Nickel laterite project (feasibility study, Kazakhstan)
- Uranium circuit (design for operating plant, Namibia)
- Extraction of lithium from brines, hard rock and clays
- Novel chloride-based processing technology for laterites and sulphides.
- Simulation of pilot- and full-scale distillation circuits.
- Pressure acid leaching of laterite, downstream recovery of nickel and cobalt.
- Oxidative leaching of sulphide minerals (pressure and atmospheric).
- Pressure leaching of nickel/copper/cobalt/iron concentrates, mattes, alloys.
- Oxidation/precipitation of iron from process solutions.
- Ion exchange/electrowinning for recovery of nickel from bioleach liquors.
- Solvent extraction/electrowinning for recovery of nickel from bioleach liquors.
- Sulphate removal from acid mine drainage.
- Hydrometallurgical processing of magnesium ores and wastes.
- Hydrometallurgical recovery of gallium metal from wastes.
- Pressure leaching of refractory gold-bearing materials.
- Recovery of gold and elemental sulphur from gold-bearing pyrite.
- Pressure leaching of sphalerite.
- Efficiency improvements in full-scale zinc electrolysis.
- Removal of manganese from zinc electrolyte.
- Electrowinning of nickel, cobalt, chromium, zinc and copper.
- Electrorefining of copper.
- Production of chromium metal and chromic acid from waste ferrochrome.
- Production of beryllium metal from beryl.
- Processing of PGM-bearing matte/alloy.
- Production of cobalt metal from converter slag.
- Recovery of copper and cobalt from manganese-bearing ores and tailings.
- Base metal and sulphur balancing by reconciliation of operating plant data.