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Mt Gordon, Australia
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BioteQ has designed and built a water treatment plant at the Mount Gordon mine in Queensland Australia, at a site owned by Birla Mt. Gordon, a subsidiary of Aditya Birla. The plant is designed to treat drainage from waste dumps and low grade stock-piles, applying the ChemSulphide® process to recover dissolved copper, cobalt, and nickel.
The plant, which has a capacity of 250 m3/hr, was commissioned in early 2008. In January 2009, a series of severe storms caused extensive flooding at the mine, and the site was shut down due to force majeure.
Force majeure conditions continue to be in effect at the site. The water treatment plant is available for full scale operations, pending agreement from the site owner to re-start water treatment.
Project Benefits
The application of BioteQ’s technology at Mt. Gordon has economic and environmental benefits. The plant:
- Removes heavy metals from the environment, producing saleable metal products that can be recycled into useful products, offsetting the cost of water treatment.
- Produces clean water that can be evaporated to maintain the mine site’s water balance.
- Reduces the production of sludge that would otherwise require long-term storage and management.
- Reduces the environmental liability associated with metal-contaminated water.
- Reduces the overall cost of water treatment at the site.