For new plants, the first challenge is designing an ore treatment process based on rigorous sample analysis, which is a critical step in ensuring project viability. Additionally, you need to manage tailings effectively and consume water and energy judiciously.

Owners of existing plants want to improve their energy efficiency, upgrade end-of-life and less powerful equipment and optimize their metallurgical transformation processes without compromising their operations.

Mineral extraction and processing pose both technical and financial challenges. BBA’s internationally-renowned, multidisciplinary team includes experienced engineers and metallurgists, as well as technicians in various areas. Together, they pool their talents and design optimal process flow sheets.

We combine our mineral processing and tailings management expertise to ensure that your project fully complies with current standards and regulations.

Optimize your recoveries with our laboratory

We work with top Canadian and international labs to identify your minerals and develop efficient and profitable metallurgical transformation process flow sheets. We also have our own lab, which we use to perform optimization and reagent consumption tests for gold ore.

We conduct instrumented, specialized testing for the precious metals industry, facilitating a level of control that would otherwise be impossible to achieve. We have helped several clients boost their gold and silver recoveries and achieve reagent cost savings.

We also offer testing to measure the potential for sulphide concentrates to self-heat, which can lead to assurances or recommendations for mitigation measures.

Learn more about our metallurgical lab