Proprietary architecture, field-validated.

Conventional flotation relies on mechanically agitated cells, with geometry and turbulence that cap concentration at 6 to 7 times. Advanced systems in column configuration reach 10 to 20 times. Green Mining operates in a proprietary compact-column configuration that enables concentration up to 250 times when combined with the other system layers.

In tailings, a significant portion of the metal is physically occluded in mineral particles, beyond the reach of conventional flotation by size and morphology. The Occluded Metals Liberation System (SLM) is a proprietary nano-scale liberation layer that exposes this metal before flotation. It's what shifts the recovery class from 60–80% to up to 99% in gold at public scale, with metal-specific ceilings anchored in the mineralogical signature of the asset.

Family of resins and catalysts developed over more than a decade of operation, tuned per commodity and per tailings profile. The specific formulation is proprietary and protected; the technical rationale is presented in detail in the technical white paper under editorial control.

The system operates with algorithmic control of key parameters — dosing, residence time, aeration profile, concentrate quality reading. Algorithms run in real time, enabling continuous adaptation to the tailings profile processed. Practical result: kinetics up to 57× faster and cycle reduced by more than 85% in the gold case.

Every mining operation generates tailings. But every tailings body is its own asset — with its own mineralogy, its own degree of oxidation, its own particle-size distribution, its own chemical history. In virgin ore, the deposit is relatively homogeneous within the mining perimeter. In tailings, heterogeneity is the rule — because what has accumulated in a dam is the sum of decades of operation, often with routes that shifted over time.

Internally, we call this the mineralogical signature of the asset. It defines how much metal is still there, in what form, and how much can re-enter circulation. And it defines, case by case, how Green Mining builds the route for that specific asset.

Mineralogy. The mineral form in which the metal is present — sulfide, oxide, carbonate, native, mixed. Gold associated with pyrite responds differently from gold associated with arsenopyrite. Sulfide copper responds differently from partially oxidized copper. Mineralogy dictates chemistry.

Degree of oxidation. How long the tailings have sat in the dam and under what conditions (climate, humidity, pH). Sulfide surfaces oxidize. Oxidation forms secondary films that reduce hydrophobicity and confuse the response of conventional reagents. Old tailings don't respond the way fresh tailings do — neither worse nor better; different.

Particle size and rheology. How fine the material was ground in the original operation, and how that distributed across the deposit. Ultra-fine slimes and very coarse particles fall outside the hydrodynamic window of conventional flotation. For Green Mining, particle size drives the design of the physical preparation stage before compact-column flotation.

Chemical history. Which reagents were used in the original processing. Xanthates, dithiophosphates, pH modifiers, depressants — all leave a residual signature on mineral surfaces. Anyone treating the tailings needs to understand what the tailings have already been through.

Target commodity and contaminants. A polymetallic tailings body (gold + silver + copper, for example) forces a routing decision: everything into the same concentrate, or selective sequential circuits. Penalty contaminants (arsenic, mercury, excess iron) impose constraints that weigh on net concentration and net recovery.

Green Mining does not apply the same recipe to every tailings body. The architecture is the same — four layers, patent granted T-01 · T-15 — but the configuration responds to each asset's signature.

Compact-column flotation is geometrically calibrated case by case to the particle size and rheology of the incoming tailings. The SLM is sized according to mineralogical occlusion — the more metal trapped in matrix, the more critical. Resins and catalysts are selected and dosed as a function of oxidation degree and chemical history — oxidized tailings call for different reagent families from fresh tailings. Algorithmic control weaves it all together in real time, reading the internal variability of the asset itself — between one sampling front and the next, between one shift and the next. T-09

No two Green Mining operations are identical. The architecture is the same. The route is by signature.

Green Mining operates, on audited scale, with recovery of up to 99% of the contained metal — gold case, under documented conditions. The distribution across metals is not uniform, and the reason is physical: each metal brings its own mineralogy, its own chemical response, its own natural ceiling in a tailings context.

Green Mining does not commit to a number on uncharacterized tailings. Any answer before the technical assessment (stage 2 of the journey) is guesswork, and that is not how we operate.

Different assets receive different routes. The system architecture is the same; the configuration is by signature. That is part of what GM charges for in the assessment and part of what it delivers in the pilot.

The per-metal ceilings are physical, not arbitrary. Gold goes higher because the physics of gold in tailings allows it. Silver goes lower because the physics of silver in tailings imposes it. Our job is to read the signature of your asset and configure the system to extract the maximum it can hold.