Mineral Processing
Building our future with minerals and metals
Every day, we’re seeing more electric vehicles and solar panels—and that also means a rapidly increasing demand for battery metals. We have projects and operations experience recovering gold, copper, platinum group metals, and rare earth elements. Our specialists can also provide guidance in lithium, nickel, cobalt, and vanadium extraction.
Our engineers have served in key roles in mineral processing, including senior operational, development, and technical services. Extracting minerals and metals requires both physical and chemical processes, including comminution, flotation, leaching, magnetic separation, and solvent extraction. Having the right team on board means you can improve efficiency and explore opportunities for increasing yields.
If you’re developing an extraction project or managing a mining site, our team can help you reliably and responsibly get the most out of your mineral resources—helping you get from rock to ore.
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Expert consultants help you optimize systems for maximum efficiency and recovery
6
Continents
0
Harm
We have mineral processing experience on six different continents.
Our goal is zero harm to the environment and sending our people home injury-free, every day.
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Services
Asset Management
Our Stantec Asset Management (SAM) sustainability experts help you find the most accurate, actionable data about your built assets so you can meet your environmental, social, and governance goals.
Hydrogeology & Geochemistry
We accurately assess your mine’s water footprint and the water variability expected over the life of your mine using a suite of modeling platforms.
Material Handling Systems
Whether you're mining underground or at the surface, we can help you move materials important to your operation.
Mine Power
Whether you are designing a new project or expanding your operations, we can assess your power needs, and design a system that meets your requirements, and is adaptable to long-term plans.
Mine Water Treatment
We have the experience and technical skills to evaluate, design, and build water treatment systems that are tailored to the unique factors of your mine.
Mining Environmental Services
By understanding your goals and the needs of regulators and stakeholders, we can put together a strategy that is balanced for success.
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