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Power innovation by uniting diverse skills and perspectives.
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Fuel success and foster growth via smart, patient capital.
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Leverage extensive industry expertise to drive transformational change.
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Tackle targeted industry problems, igniting creativity and solutions.
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Leveraging the potential of deep tech innovation to address critical industry challenges across the entire mining value chain.
Prospect Innovation has been instrumental in our growth and success. Their support has empowered us to revolutionize the construction and mining sectors through autonomous technology. I am grateful for our partnership and look forward to further milestones.
Bibhrajit Halder, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO
Prospect is extremely knowledgeable and well connected in the industry. They are leaders in supporting innovative technologies that have the potential to disrupt the mining sector.
Megan O’Connor, Ph.D
Co-founder and CEO
Prospect Innovation is a hub of innovation in a sector that needs new technology and business models to support shifting to a decarbonized future. Over the past few years, their advice, feedback, and connections have helped us grow significantly.
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Co-Founder & VP of Partnerships
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World Economic Forum’s open innovation platform to tackle global challenges.
Uplink powers an ‘entrepreneur revolution’ for people and planet by invigorating start-ups with solutions aligned with Sustainable Development Goals. With key partners, it facilitates Innovation Challenges, aiming to source, identify and scale purpose-driven startups.
Mining a brighter and clearer future.
A leading mining company that operates geographically close facilities, including mines and gas production plants, to provide essential resources. They contribute to renewable energy, electric vehicles, sustainable farming, and the global infrastructure and energy transition.
Creating limitless trading opportunities through extensive global reach.
A trading powerhouse that engages in domestic and international trade across a wide range of products, including textiles, machinery, metals, energy, and more, along with investments in Japan and overseas.
Combining over seven decades of expertise with innovation for optimal growth.
Minception is a multidisciplinary consultancy that helps exploration, mining & mineral companies navigate the complexities of today’s mining industry. Built on a legacy-rich foundation, it addresses the present landscape’s challenges with a team of global experts and technical experience.
Paving the way for an autonomous tomorrow.
SafeAI is a leading innovator in retrofitting heavy equipment for autonomous use in mining and construction. It’s open, interoperable systems seamlessly integrate with any software, offering autonomous workflows and retrofit solutions for various OEM brands, while transitioning heavy industry to autonomous worksites.
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BroadBit is pioneering the development of new batteries using innovative sodium-based chemistries. These batteries, based on metallic sodium and other readily available compounds, do not incorporate rare earth metals in the anode, cathode, and electrolyte components. In addition, BroadBit has introduced an advanced electrolyte with improved operating specifications for Li-ion batteries and is currently working on cobalt and nickel-free cathodes for Li-ion batteries.
BroadBit has successfully created high-performance lab samples and is actively engaged in commercializing this technology for a wide range of applications, including next-generation electric vehicles, portable electronics, starters, and grid energy storage.
Quidnet Energy is pioneering an innovative approach to energy storage by utilizing underground water storage. This novel sub-surface pumped hydro storage method facilitates the large-scale deployment of renewable energy and ensures the reliable and dispatchable delivery of power from intermittent renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
The Quidnet module is constructed using conventional drilling technology and readily available hydropower equipment. Subsurface rock layers are converted into energy storage reservoirs to support the integration of large-scale renewables and efficient grid management.
Green Gravity is radically accelerating the world's transition to renewable energy. They are enabling this global shift by developing the next generation of ultra-green energy storage technology.
At Green Gravity, they specialize in the development, installation, and operation of cutting-edge gravitational energy storage systems. Their mission is to establish themselves as the world's most cost-effective and sustainable provider of energy storage technology. By placing a strong focus on the circular economy, they are poised to lead in shaping the future of energy, utilizing the legacy of mining. Green Gravity is firmly committed to promoting access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
Maverick BioMetals the Frontier of Biomining: Mineral Processing and Metal Extraction. Maverick leads the way in transforming metallurgy with groundbreaking technology that utilizes enzymes at near-ambient conditions, contributing to a cleaner energy future and efficient metal extraction. Conventional extractive metallurgical processes are highly energy-intensive, relying on fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, resulting in environmental harm and inefficiency.
Maverick's capabilities encompass the extraction of various metals, including Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Neodymium, along with the capacity to extract other elements such as U, Al, Th, Ra, Mg, Mn, Fe, and Sb.
Impulstec’s material-selective electrohydraulic fragmentation process (EHF) offers a convincing solution for the material separation of complex material composites. The method uses mechanical shock waves, which are generated in a fluid medium, to bring about an energy coupling and thus a separation of the composites.
This shock wave technology enables a highly selective separation of electrical or electronic devices at their mechanical weak points, thus enabling selective disassembly into individual components. Disassembling complex assemblies creates new recycling options for the separated.
Allied Microbiota has developed methods of bioremediation using naturally isolated bacterial cultures and their enzymes for the remediation of soil, sediments, and groundwater using techniques like composting, and flow-through reactors. Allied Microbiota’s microbes destroy recalcitrant contamination, instead of transferring them, providing users with remarkable cost savings, reducing PCB levels by 80 percent in a few days. Their team is expanding their focus on improving the fermentation process to develop new bio-chemicals and enzymes for industrial and environmental applications.
Lixivia has developed a process to purify and separate minerals intended to be cost-effective and scalable. Lixivia carefully chooses chemistry and process conditions to refine large mineral mixtures which include low-grade lime, dolime, steel and iron slag, rare earth metals, and lithium enabling clients to capture more value from the minerals in a cost-effective manner.
Lixivia applies proprietary processes and bio-derived chemicals to dramatically improve the recovery of precipitated calcium carbonates, calcium salts, and rare earth metals from industrial mineral waste products. Lixivia is focused on leaching a copper ore through a hydrometallurgical process from sulfide species and copper products like concentrates with or without arsenic, tailings, smelting dust, and smelting slag.
Nth Cycle leverages the power of electro-extraction: closed-loop, clean and modular technology
(< 1,000 sq. ft.) for reliably recovering critical minerals from e-waste and low-grade mine tailings using electricity.
Their process increases the marketability of critical minerals by producing production-grade feedstocks, with over 50% purity. They can reliably recover over 90% of the target critical minerals.
Nth Cycle’s outputs are metal hydroxides that can be sold to hydrometallurgical refineries for reuse in lithium-ion cathode manufacturing lines. Their upgraded products can be inserted later into the process for refining, which saves time, cost, and resources to produce battery-grade precursors.
Innocule has developed a range of proprietary additives – consisting of specialty chemicals and polymers, to increase the overall efficiency and cost-effectiveness of processing of low-grade ores. Their product offerings include dispersants, dewatering aids, flow aids, grinding aids, and other specialty chemicals used for the upgradation and beneficiation of minerals.
Phoenix Tailings is a provider of metal refining services that takes mining and refining waste and treats it as a new ore usable by various industries. This sustainable approach creates primary metals while eliminating hazardous environmental waste.
Phoenix Tailings employs a proprietary combination of hydrometallurgy, solvometallurgy, and electrometallurgy processes to extract pure metals and compounds from tailings. The process begins with applying chemical separation techniques, utilizing a unique blend of chemicals and solvents to separate materials from waste. Subsequently, a low-temperature electrolytic cell pumping process is employed to transform the separated material into valuable metal.
ElectraMet (owned by PowerTech Water) is a fully automated electrochemical system that targets metals with high selectivity from a variety of water streams. It uses activated carbon electrodes and small amounts of electricity to actively attract, immobilize, and filter metals with over 99% selectivity and no sludge production for 100% water recovery.
Their proven and environmentally friendly technology is designed to meet discharge regulations. ElectraMet reduces OPEX and is highly energy-efficient.
Cemvita Factory is in the process of establishing a synthetic biology platform with a wide range of applications in decarbonization, including carbon utilization, green fuels (biohydrogen), and biomining. They are pioneering advanced microbe-mineral interactions that hold promise for applications throughout the entire mining life cycle: encompassing bio-comminution, bio-beneficiation, bio-leaching, bio- remediation, and recycling.
Cemvita aims to deliver comprehensive services, spanning from the development to the deployment of custom-engineered microorganisms. Their offerings include multiple service levels, ranging from microbe licensing to full biomanufacturing process support.
ACE's battery recycling technology platform offers zero-waste and Scope 1 emissions-free solutions for recycling lithium-ion and lead batteries.
ACE achieves high recovery rates for Lithium and Lead with its 100% electrified, hydrometallurgical process. The modular technology supports recycling across multiple battery chemistries and enables rapid deployment of recycling projects.
Their 'Lithium First' extraction technology produces high-purity lithium carbonate and mixed metal oxides and hydroxides for reuse in new lithium-ion batteries, while the advanced process replaces traditional lead battery smelting.
Sensmore, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, is leading the way in transforming mining operations through advanced automation. They've introduced a groundbreaking approach to automation, utilizing
radar-driven automation driven by a proprietary deep learning algorithm designed for deployment in the most challenging environments.
radar-driven automation driven by a proprietary deep learning algorithm designed for deployment in the most challenging environments.
By harnessing the latest in radar technology and artificial intelligence, Sensmore tackles automation for heavy machinery in even the most adverse conditions. Their versatile plug-and-play solution can be deployed across various vehicles and environments, resulting in heightened productivity, reduced emissions, enhanced safety, and substantial cost savings for mining operations.
SafeAI specializes in retrofitting heavy equipment for autonomous applications in the mining and construction industries. Their autonomous technology enables equipment owners to seamlessly convert their existing machinery into self-operating assets.
SafeAI's systems are known for their open and interoperable nature, making them compatible with a wide range of software systems and enabling autonomous workflows. Thanks to their versatile autonomous kit, which can be retrofitted onto machinery from any OEM brand, customers can effortlessly implement mixed-fleet automation.
Skylark Drones plays a pivotal role in drone technology, constructing essential infrastructure for the global drone ecosystem. Their platform empowers Fortune 500 companies with advanced drone analytics, ensures secure flight execution for service providers, and assists manufacturers with regulatory compliance. By converting vast drone data into actionable insights, they accelerate industrial productivity.
Skylark Drones is committed to making drone technology a universal part of the enterprise stack. They adopt a long-term "builder's view," collaborating with businesses to identify challenges and create customized solutions. They are simplifying global drone operations and developing tools for autonomous aerial missions that cater to drone fleets of all sizes, making distributed operations easy to manage.
Exyn Technologies develops autonomous aerial robot systems for data acquisition and collection in complex, GPS-denied industrial environments. The core of Exyn’s technology is ExynAI autonomy and mapping software based on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization & Mapping) which has been designed to be agnostic to the vehicle and allows the drones to be immune to GPS signal loss, meaning all spatial and mapping computations are done onboard. Completely pilotless flight allows mine operators to access impossible-to-reach data with maximum safety.
Exyn is currently exploring opportunities in the construction industry along with active interest in other markets/industries like energy, defense, logistics & warehousing and infrastructure inspection.
Tomahawk Robotics is ushering in a transformation. In the era of remarkable advancements in uncrewed technologies and AI, a complex web of robotic platforms and solutions with closed architectures has emerged. They've developed the Kinesis Ecosystem - an architecture that is agnostic to UxV platforms and data links, providing a versatile control solution that revolutionizes human interaction with uncrewed systems, even in the most demanding and challenging environments.
Kinesis empowers users to harness the capabilities of over 20 uncrewed systems from various manufacturers, all accessible on a single unified interface. Furthermore, these systems have been upgraded with cutting-edge AI features and are seamlessly integrated into the tactical network, providing a comprehensive solution for uncrewed system operations.
Pliant Energy Systems conceptualizes, patents, and develops highly novel technologies in the fields of marine robotics, propulsion, electricity generation, and pumping. The company's services harness the energy of naturally-flowing waterways such as streams, rivers, tidal flows, and deep ocean currents and their generator technology deflects heavy objects, resists entanglement, has high survivability and resilience, low secondary structure costs and is effective in shallow or slow-moving water, enabling users to get a robot that is capable of moving from water to beach and back again.
Impulstec’s material-selective electrohydraulic fragmentation process (EHF) offers a convincing solution for the material separation of complex material composites. The method uses mechanical shock waves, which are generated in a fluid medium, to bring about an energy coupling and thus a separation of the composites.
This shock wave technology enables a highly selective separation of electrical or electronic devices at their mechanical weak points, thus enabling selective disassembly into individual components. Disassembling complex assemblies creates new recycling options for the separated.
HyperSciences is pioneering a revolutionary transformation in tunneling and mining with its cutting-edge hypersonic robotic accelerator, one of the world's fastest engines. They hold multiple patents for hypersonic solutions, propelling projectiles at speeds 3 to 5 times the velocity of sound, and providing innovative solutions to some of the most challenging global issues.
At the forefront of disrupting the tunneling and mining sectors, HyperSciences is replacing traditional explosive-based drilling and blasting methods when penetrating tough rock formations. This shift allows civil tunneling projects to be completed in a fraction of the time and significantly reduces the time-to-mineral extraction in large-scale mines. In addition to these time-saving advantages, their approach prioritizes safety and environmental sustainability, providing a superior alternative for their valued clientele.
Novamera’s Sustainable Mining by Drilling (“SMD”) technology is a two-pass drilling the system where the first pass strategically places a pilot hole through the vein along the dip using directional drilling methods and high resolution near wellbore imaging and surveying tools. The second pass uses large-diameter hole-opening equipment, following the pilot hole, to excavate the vein out to its full thickness and transport the cuttings to the surface using low-energy reverse circulation methods.
Their technology has potential as a standalone commercial technology to enhance exploration by providing ore deposit imaging around and between diamond drill holes to build more accurate ore body models, identify ore body zones possibly missed by drilling, and enhance overall subsurface information.
CyanoGuard is leading the way in reinventing cyanide monitoring. They specialize in manufacturing and providing cutting-edge solutions for safe and efficient cyanide monitoring and management. Their solutions offer a visible competitive edge to clients compared to those who rely on traditional technologies.
On a mission to enhance sustainability and efficiency in the world's largest industry, mining, CyanoGuard offers a reliable, user-friendly, and real-time cyanide monitoring solution. This solution empowers mining companies to reduce toxic reagent usage, and greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance precious metal recoveries. Beyond mining, their goal is to enable a wide range of applications, from blood testing to food-related analytical chemistry decisions, with their innovative technology.
OneWatt predicts and detects faults in industrial equipment by listening to motors using predictive AI and proprietary Embedded Acoustic Recognition Sensors (EARS). EARS detects mechanical faults at a much earlier rate. This helps industrial facilities keep their motors running in the best condition at all times, leading to 10% energy efficiency, 30% extended asset lifetime, and 70% less down times.
OneWatt’s second product, Lightweight Observer: Bluetooth Edition (LOBE), combines temperature, vibration, humidity, and atmospheric sensors into one small IP67 rated, Bluetooth hardware allowing it to gather in-depth insights into the performance of motors.
SB Quantum is using quantum sensing to disrupt magnetometry. They have developed a Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Sensor, coupled with proprietary algorithms including tensor gradiometry, to improve geological interpretations (e.g. drill hole targeting) and reduce costs. This technology reduces the boreholes required in exploration by having higher-resolution magnetic surveys to give greater confidence. This will save costs and move towards greener extraction processes.
These innovations also enable two additional applications for mining: navigation for underground vehicles (e.g. AVs in GPS-denied environments) and anti-collision systems. SB Quantum’s sensors offer a size and form factor advantage over incumbent superconducting quantum interference devices in the market.
Pitcrew AI’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled architecture automates vehicle inspection and diagnostics by utilizing distributed sensors and edge-processed computer vision (FLIR thermal imaging, AI, and a library of thermal training images) to provide real-time data for informed decision making and performance optimization.
Pitcrew provides automated inspection and condition monitoring assessment of large mining vehicles, especially high-value haul trucks, and OTR tires.
Muon Vision provides a passive, non-invasive X-ray imaging technology based on cosmic ray radiation detection, that can be used in the mining industry to visualize the percolation and saturation of process fluids across leaching heaps and also to monitor the slope stability of tailings dams, heaps, mining assets.
In monitoring tailings pond stability, Muon Vision’s sensors measure the phreatic level inside a dam, as well as the water content inside a storage pond, allowing the asset owner to proactively take remedial actions and maximize water recovery activities in a tailing pond.
rad.Data is a cloud-based spectral imaging services provider, driven by a superior algorithm and operated by world-leading spectral geologists. The service manages a deposit or mine-specific dynamic spectral database which functions as the live reference for multiple geometallurgical sensor applications along the value chain, such as exploration, mine-face mapping, stockpile management, ore sorting, and process analytics.
Talpasolutions provides software that connects mobile heavy machinery, gathers data, and translates machine data into actionable insights for machine manufacturers and operators. The startup assists companies in optimizing machine performance, reducing unplanned downtime, extending the machinery's lifespan, and enhancing safety.
Talpasolutions's technology leverages real-time and historical data from machines and plants, along with contextual information about weather and the environment, to optimize operations for operators and managers. This optimization extends the service life and enhances the dispatching, disposition, and design of machines throughout the entire product life cycle.
RIO Analytics’ technology combines machine learning and deep learning algorithms with equipment physics and mechanics to predict failures of industrial equipment. RIO delivers this analysis to their clients through their AI platform KAIROS.
Their technology is extremely focused on predicting, through AI algorithms, how, why, and when equipment will fail. Their platform KAIROS is based on a library of failure prediction apps, making it agnostic in terms of the type of mining equipment it can assess.
Lexset is a synthetic data company specialized in addressing the training data challenges that frustrate data scientists and hinder the vast potential of artificial intelligence. Lexset's tools enable on-demand generation of photorealistic synthetic data tailored to any use case, facilitating the development of vision models from the data they create.
Objectivity utilizes AI-based algorithms to improve the efficiency of resource conversion drilling during critical pre-production activity, reducing project development timelines & improving ROI. This increase in efficiency, on a critical path to pre-production activity, reduces the time taken to bring a mineral discovery into production. Unlike many other groups that are implementing/testing AI for exploration, Objectivity is not focusing on improving mineral discovery. Instead, Objectivity’s DRX technology is a drill hole optimization algorithm that allows geologists and engineers to accurately produce, quantify, and quickly evaluate the benefits obtained from in-fill and delineation drilling layouts.
Using the DRX optimization program the existing drilling layouts can be considerably improved by: decreasing drilling meters to meet a level of coverage/conversion, increasing the coverage/conversion for a given drilling budget, or, a combination of the drilling reduction and resource conversion increase.
LlamaZOO Interactive's technology solutions liberate, fuse, and visualize geospatial, engineering, and IoT data, transforming it into actionable Spatial Business Intelligence. Their expertise enables companies to reduce costs, improve productivity, and discover new opportunities.
Leveraging interactive technologies, they have developed world-leading 3D data visualization solutions for industries like mining, oil and gas, forestry, and more. As a leader in Spatial Business Intelligence (SBI), LlamaZOO utilizes its proprietary SBI platform and a suite of software products to empower leaders and their teams to make high-quality decisions faster. By facilitating contextual experiences with large and complex datasets in a single, 3D digital twin, LlamaZOO enables effective collaboration and contributions from everyone, regardless of their skill or discipline.
Skylark Drones plays a pivotal role in drone technology, constructing essential infrastructure for the global drone ecosystem. Their platform empowers Fortune 500 companies with advanced drone analytics, ensures secure flight execution for service providers, and assists manufacturers with regulatory compliance. By converting vast drone data into actionable insights, they accelerate industrial productivity.
Skylark Drones is committed to making drone technology a universal part of the enterprise stack. They adopt a long-term "builder's view," collaborating with businesses to identify challenges and create customized solutions. They are simplifying global drone operations and developing tools for autonomous aerial missions that cater to drone fleets of all sizes, making distributed operations easy to manage.
Sensmore, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, is leading the way in transforming mining operations through advanced automation. They've introduced a groundbreaking approach to automation, utilizing
radar-driven automation driven by a proprietary deep learning algorithm designed for deployment in the most challenging environments.
radar-driven automation driven by a proprietary deep learning algorithm designed for deployment in the most challenging environments.
By harnessing the latest in radar technology and artificial intelligence, Sensmore tackles automation for heavy machinery in even the most adverse conditions. Their versatile plug-and-play solution can be deployed across various vehicles and environments, resulting in heightened productivity, reduced emissions, enhanced safety, and substantial cost savings for mining operations.
Exyn Technologies develops autonomous aerial robot systems for data acquisition and collection in complex, GPS-denied industrial environments. The core of Exyn’s technology is ExynAI autonomy and mapping software based on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization & Mapping) which has been designed to be agnostic to the vehicle and allows the drones to be immune to GPS signal loss, meaning all spatial and mapping computations are done onboard. Completely pilotless flight allows mine operators to access impossible-to-reach data with maximum safety.
Exyn is currently exploring opportunities in the construction industry along with active interest in other markets/industries like energy, defense, logistics & warehousing and infrastructure inspection.
Eden has developed a first-of-its-kind Electrical Reservoir Stimulation technology with applications spanning the geothermal, mining, and petroleum sectors. Their mission is to enable scalable and sustainable extraction of Earth's geothermal heat and natural resources. ERS is recognized as a safer, more effective, and highly efficient method for extracting Earth's natural resources, aligning with the vision of a carbon-free future.
Within the contemporary mining landscape, issues such as energy-intensive ore breaking and processing, as well as the generation of significant volumes of tailings and waste rock, remain prominent concerns. Eden's ERS technology offers sustainable solutions for these challenges.
Cemvita Factory is in the process of establishing a synthetic biology platform with a wide range of applications in decarbonization, including carbon utilization, green fuels (biohydrogen), and biomining. They are pioneering advanced microbe-mineral interactions that hold promise for applications throughout the entire mining life cycle: encompassing bio-comminution, bio-beneficiation, bio-leaching, bio- remediation, and recycling.
Cemvita aims to deliver comprehensive services, spanning from the development to the deployment of custom-engineered microorganisms. Their offerings include multiple service levels, ranging from microbe licensing to full biomanufacturing process support.
Quidnet Energy is pioneering an innovative approach to energy storage by utilizing underground water storage. This novel sub-surface pumped hydro storage method facilitates the large-scale deployment of renewable energy and ensures the reliable and dispatchable delivery of power from intermittent renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
The Quidnet module is constructed using conventional drilling technology and readily available hydropower equipment. Subsurface rock layers are converted into energy storage reservoirs to support the integration of large-scale renewables and efficient grid management.
Phoenix Tailings is a provider of metal refining services that takes mining and refining waste and treats it as a new ore usable by various industries. This sustainable approach creates primary metals while eliminating hazardous environmental waste.
Phoenix Tailings employs a proprietary combination of hydrometallurgy, solvometallurgy, and electrometallurgy processes to extract pure metals and compounds from tailings. The process begins with applying chemical separation techniques, utilizing a unique blend of chemicals and solvents to separate materials from waste. Subsequently, a low-temperature electrolytic cell pumping process is employed to transform the separated material into valuable metal.
Carbon Upcycling Technologies (CUT) specializes in converting CO2 gas emissions from point sources, such as power plants, into solid products. The company employs a proprietary, patent-pending technology that chemically absorbs CO2 emissions into exfoliated fly ash, resulting in various nanomaterials that enhance corrosion resistance in concrete infrastructure exposed to acidic environments.
CUT has also successfully applied its technology to different tailings samples, and its portfolio of CO2- derived solid nanoparticles has undergone technical validation for use in various industries, including plastics, coatings, epoxy, adhesives, concrete, lithium-ion batteries, and pharmaceuticals. The product is commercially ready, with nanoparticle production scaled from 0.5 grams per week to over 500 kg per week, and the company has generated commercial revenue through the sale of AC-100 concrete coating. Depending on the feedstock, CUT can expedite the process, with the potential to move from one month of lab testing in Canada to in-field piloting.
Nth Cycle leverages the power of electro-extraction: closed-loop, clean and modular technology
(< 1,000 sq. ft.) for reliably recovering critical minerals from e-waste and low-grade mine tailings using electricity.
Their process increases the marketability of critical minerals by producing production-grade feedstocks, with over 50% purity. They can reliably recover over 90% of the target critical minerals.
Nth Cycle’s outputs are metal hydroxides that can be sold to hydrometallurgical refineries for reuse in lithium-ion cathode manufacturing lines. Their upgraded products can be inserted later into the process for refining, which saves time, cost, and resources to produce battery-grade precursors.
Earth Alive maintains a portfolio of microbial-based products aimed at addressing industrial environmental concerns. Among these solutions, their biological product, Ea1 Dust Suppressant, utilizes microbial processes to aggregate fine dust particles effectively.
Ea1 can bind more than 96% of road dust particles, leading to a remarkable reduction in water usage by over 90%. Furthermore, Earth Alive's application protocol mandates reapplication only once every 14 days, significantly minimizing water truck traffic on roads.
Ea1 can bind more than 96% of road dust particles, leading to a remarkable reduction in water usage by over 90%. Furthermore, Earth Alive's application protocol mandates reapplication only once every 14 days, significantly minimizing water truck traffic on roads.
Lixivia has developed a process to purify and separate minerals intended to be cost-effective and scalable. Lixivia carefully chooses chemistry and process conditions to refine large mineral mixtures which include low-grade lime, dolime, steel and iron slag, rare earth metals, and lithium enabling clients to capture more value from the minerals in a cost-effective manner.
Lixivia applies proprietary processes and bio-derived chemicals to dramatically improve the recovery of precipitated calcium carbonates, calcium salts, and rare earth metals from industrial mineral waste products. Lixivia is focused on leaching a copper ore through a hydrometallurgical process from sulfide species and copper products like concentrates with or without arsenic, tailings, smelting dust, and smelting slag.
Allied Microbiota has developed methods of bioremediation using naturally isolated bacterial cultures and their enzymes for the remediation of soil, sediments, and groundwater using techniques like composting, and flow-through reactors. Allied Microbiota’s microbes destroy recalcitrant contamination, instead of transferring them, providing users with remarkable cost savings, reducing PCB levels by 80 percent in a few days. Their team is expanding their focus on improving the fermentation process to develop new bio-chemicals and enzymes for industrial and environmental applications.
Maverick BioMetals the Frontier of Biomining: Mineral Processing and Metal Extraction. Maverick leads the way in transforming metallurgy with groundbreaking technology that utilizes enzymes at near-ambient conditions, contributing to a cleaner energy future and efficient metal extraction. Conventional extractive metallurgical processes are highly energy-intensive, relying on fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, resulting in environmental harm and inefficiency.
Maverick's capabilities encompass the extraction of various metals, including Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Neodymium, along with the capacity to extract other elements such as U, Al, Th, Ra, Mg, Mn, Fe, and Sb.
Allied Microbiota has developed methods of bioremediation using naturally isolated bacterial cultures and their enzymes for the remediation of soil, sediments, and groundwater using techniques like composting, and flow-through reactors. Allied Microbiota’s microbes destroy recalcitrant contamination, instead of transferring them, providing users with remarkable cost savings, reducing PCB levels by 80 percent in a few days. Their team is expanding their focus on improving the fermentation process to develop new bio-chemicals and enzymes for industrial and environmental applications.
Cemvita Factory is in the process of establishing a synthetic biology platform with a wide range of applications in decarbonization, including carbon utilization, green fuels (biohydrogen), and biomining. They are pioneering advanced microbe-mineral interactions that hold promise for applications throughout the entire mining life cycle: encompassing bio-comminution, bio-beneficiation, bio-leaching, bio- remediation, and recycling.
Cemvita aims to deliver comprehensive services, spanning from the development to the deployment of custom-engineered microorganisms. Their offerings include multiple service levels, ranging from microbe licensing to full biomanufacturing process support.