Lead, Zinc & Tin

Challenges

The market demands a constant supply of these metals. The question is, how to do it with depleting resource grades, finer mineralogy, and the use of non-sulfide and recycled feed materials.

New and efficient technologies are constantly being developed to mine, concentrate, and extract more complex, less-pure feed materials. Using them presents the industry with a number of technical challenges: treating high silica and halogen content in the feed; recovering value-added secondary elements; and meeting increasingly stringent plant-hygiene and environmental regulations.

Like businesses everywhere, mining and processing facilities must maximize financial returns over the life of their projects. This, while complying with rigorous safety and environmental constraints during every phase of project development: from investigating lead, zinc, and tin properties at the scoping level; to conducting feasibility studies to direct resources to the production and optimization of mine and mineral processing facilities. The best return on investment always comes from managing the project with technical, cost, and schedule certainty; identifying risk and mitigating it throughout the development process.