Greater Sudbury Development Corp throws support behind advancing environmentally sustainable mining
A recent Northern Ontario Business Award winner has received funding from the Greater Sudbury Development Corporation to help create an ambitious and innovative new element to the city’s mining industry.
Mykytczuk, the interim CEO and president of MIRARCO, is a world expert on bioleaching – also called biomining – and mine remediation, an innovative method of extracting valuable metals from mine waste tailings using naturally occurring bacteria. It’s also an environmentally-friendly method of cleaning up these toxic legacy sites.
MIRARCO is the Mining Innovation Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corp., a non-for-profit entity for applied research in the mining industry. The group is located in the Cliff Fielding building on the campus of Laurentian University. Mykytczuk is partnering with Toronto-based BacTech Environmental on assembling a pyrrohotite pilot plant in Sudbury that involves a mill flotation process designed to target nickel, cobalt and other saleable minerals, like silicates, from these waste piles. The plant is expected to be operational sometime this year.
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