EcoBiome Metals is an innovative environmental firm that has a primary focus on revolutionising the recovery and processing of metals through the use of sustainable and cutting-edge biomining technology.
Ecobiome Metals llc is a leading microbial technology company serving the mining industry. The company has recently announced the launch of its new EcoBiome Metals Biomining Technology, focused on serving the precious metals, battery metals, base metals, and lithium markets.
The need for EcoBiome’s advanced microbial technology
Marc Rodriguez, CEO of EcoBiome Metals, said: “Conventional microbial technologies are only capable of identifying and categorising about 5% of the microbes in any sample. Our patented EcoBiome Technology® platform, on the other hand, can identify and categorise up to 100% of the microbes in a sample, allowing us to develop custom microbial formulations to improve and enhance gold and battery metal recoveries, sustainably and successfully.”
According to Rodriguez, microbiology is the catalyst for optimal gold and battery metal recovery. Over the years, traditional and conventional mining practices have slowly stripped rock ore, soils, coal and other substrates of their basic nutrient-rich organic matter and microbiomes vital for optimal metal recovery.
Rodriguez continued: “Gold and other valuable battery metals can be more efficiently recovered only if there are proper types of bacteria colonising the microscopic rock pores and actively releasing and mobilising trapped gold and ions through the process of biological transformation. These beneficial EcoBiome microbes, which you can think of as microscopic bio-miners, are essential for gold recovery and maintaining rock ore health by substantially reducing sulfide sulfur, organic carbon (preg-robbing carbon) and many other elements that tend to impede and inhibit gold and battery metal recoveries. Without a healthy microbial population in the ore, then gold and battery metal recovery can and will suffer.”
The advanced EcoBiome technology provides comprehensive identification of specific microbes capable of releasing trapped gold, platinum group metals (PGMs), rare earths, copper, lithium, and valuable minerals from their substrate.
If microbial deficiencies are discovered, EcoBiome will recommend and offer custom-derived microbial products, like its industry-pioneering ORE Breaker™, Cultured Gold®, Cultured Rare Earth™, Cultured Lithium™, and Cultured Copper™, which are scientifically formulated to substantially improve the recovery of valuable metals from difficult-to-process material.
The EcoBiome pilot plant
As a response to high market demand, EcoBiome is accelerating the deployment of its biomining pilot plant for battery-grade rare earth metals, lithium material, and PGMs, including gold.
Marc Rodriguez said: “EcoBiome’s pilot plant represents an excellent opportunity to demonstrate a leap in production efficiency with a more sustainable approach. EcoBiome’s expertise in the microbial technology domain, development of select and speciality bacteria technology, and its leading Innovate and Discover® labs all play an important role in the innovation and efficiency of our biomining process.
“We continually demonstrate substantial improvements in gold recovery after EcoBiome microbial treatment, resulting in significant decreases of preg-robbing carbon and sulphide sulphur. EcoBiome ORE Breaker™ is a highly scientific and superior blend of microbes specific for the mining industry to solve and recover gold from its most challenging rock ore bodies in heap piles, static and tailings piles. ORE Breaker™ can fit into all flow processes within an operating gold, lithium and battery metal mine.”
Application across industries
Rodriguez sees an excellent fit for the new EcoBiome technology in the precious metals, rare earth battery metals, lithium, and fertiliser nutrient mining sectors, to name a few. He said: “With the high cost of chemicals and capital expenditure, it makes good economic sense to ensure that ores contain the proper microbial balance and ecology to optimise and accelerate the release of trapped and valuable gold and battery metals.”
EcoBiome applies Scientific and Advanced Biomes to enhance the extraction and recovery of an unlimited variety of valuable metals that include all precious metals, strategic battery metals including copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and nutrient fertilisers.
The new metal recovery standard
At EcoBiome, we use breakthrough and cutting-edge microbial technology to extract high-value elements from various sources for a green, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and high-yielding process for target elements. These include gold, lithium, rare earth metals, battery elements, ore, and more.
Reduce capital expenditure significantly
With our proprietary, patent-pending innovation, we’re setting a new standard for sustainability and efficiency in the metal recovery industry without the use of harmful chemicals.
By harnessing the power of revolutionary purpose-specific microbes, our proprietary process can separate elements from a wide range of substances, including carbonaceous materials and high sulphur sulphide ore bodies, enabling recovery of target elements from previously unusable samples, which helps you reduce capital expenditure requirements for mining and production.
EcoBiome is actively seeking global strategic partners, business alignments, and collaborations for its patented microbial-enhanced gold and battery metal recovery technology.
Contact us if you are ready to jump-start your mine’s future using EcoBiome’s Advanced Biomes.
For more information about EcoBiome Metals, LLC and its focus on sustainable, organic and regenerative gold and battery metal recovery technology, please visit ecobiomemetals.com and email info@my-ecobiome.com.
Please note, this article will also appear in the 19th edition of our quarterly publication.
