Gold, silver, copper, zinc: locked in tailings.
Each commodity has its demand, kinetics, and role in the energy transition. All share one trait: they were partially discarded to tailings by conventional flotation. Green Mining recovers all four.
One page per metal.
Physical and chemical properties, industrial uses, structural demand, and Green Mining's specific recovery angle in tailings.
Why these four, and why from tailings.
These four metals cover roughly three quarters of the planet's economically relevant tailings. Gold and silver are precious metals with liquid markets and perennial demand. Their historical flotation left 25% to 40% of the metal behind, in tailings still carrying grams per ton. Copper and zinc are base metals: the energy transition multiplied copper demand, while zinc is a stable-volume commodity. Across all four, conventional flotation hit a ceiling. Recovering what's left depends on different physics. And on different chemistry: proprietary resins, cyanide-free.
Green Mining doesn't pick a commodity: it assesses the tailings profile. Polymetallics, with multiple metals in the same asset, are frequent. In many cases, the combined value unlocks the operation where no single metal would.
Your tailings likely carry more than one.
The preliminary assessment starts from basic asset characterization: historical commodity, volume, location, operational history.