Altilium Projects

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Altilium is an innovative global leader in metallurgy with a mission is to continually improve the extractions of critical metals to deliver efficient and profitable flowsheets, positioning Altilium at the forefront of sustainable mineral processing solutions. Altilium’s patented technology uses nitric acid to extract all the metals present in the feed. Nitric acid is extremely efficient at dissolving metals into solution. By extracting all the metals, the mass of the feed is reduced to leave just the silicate component (with some trace nitrate compounds). Altilium’s focus is on refining and optimising each of our process flowsheets to maximise the efficient extraction of the target metals: nickel, cobalt, scandium, rare earth elements, alumina, iron and titanium. Recent achievements include:  The highest rare earth extractions known in the industry to date;  Production of nickel/cobalt MHP containing over 50% of those metals;  Production of a very high quality alumina containing 99.5% aluminium;  Production of a high quality hematite containing ~68% iron. Competitive advantages of Altilium’s Technology:  A zero-waste process: no tailings dams;  Produces an inert residue which contains trace amounts of nitrates (rendering the residue as a weak fertiliser): aids site rehabilitation;  Efficiently extracts metals from ores and certain mine and process wastes;  Uses nitric acid and recovers and reuses 99% of that acid;  Extracts all available metals: more saleable products;  Flexible, adaptable chemistry resulting in these flowsheets: o Altilium Nickel Laterite Process™ - extracts nickel and cobalt as sulphates together with scandium, aluminium, iron and magnesium; o Altilium Bauxite Process™ - extracts metals from bauxite ore; o Altilium Red Mud Process™ - re-processing bauxite residue; o Altilium Ti/REE Process™ - extracts titanium & REEs from laterite ore.