CONTACT US
PRA Metallurgical Division
11620 Horseshoe Way
Richmond, B.C. V7A 4V5
CANADA
Tel: 604.272.8110
Fax: 604.272.0851
Email: pra@inspectorate.com
NEWS+EVENTS
PRA was acquired by Inspectorate in September 2008 as part of a worldwide metallurgical testing division.
Mineral Trade Show Events
Arequipa, Peru – Sept 15/09
Vera Cruz, Mexico – Oct 28/09
Yellowknife, NWT – Nov 17/09
Whitehorse, YT – Nov 23/09
HYDROMETALLURGY
To recover valuable constituents from concentrates or raw minerals it is sometimes necessary to use methods based on mass chemistry, where one or more of the mineral structures is changed, in an aqueous environment. PRA has extensive expertise in this fields from bench tests to demonstration plants. Projects have ranged from the recovery of valuable metals from steel furnace dusts, gold extraction from refractory minerals, production of pure cobalt, to heap leaching and solvent extraction of copper.
Our testing capabilities include:
- Cyanidation studies by the Merrill Crowe, CIP, and CIL procedures
- Pressure oxidation
- Bottle roll and tank leaching
- Counter current closed circuit tank leaching
- Column leaching up to one meter diameter
- Diagnostic/sequential leach
- Bio-oxidation of refractory gold ores and concentrates
- Bioleaching of copper and other base metal ores and concentrates
- Biological heap leach simulation
- Solvent extraction
- Ion exchange
- Electrowinning
- Differential precipitation
