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Precious Metals Recovery
Precious Metals Recovery covers the engineering and process choices used to convert gold, silver, and platinum-group metal (PGM) ores into recoverable value streams, under real-world constraints such as variable oxidation profiles, shifting mineral textures, and gangue-driven impacts on reagent demand and water balance. In practice, precious metals are defined by how and where value is hosted and liberated—as free particles, as sulfide-associated value (often linked with minerals such as pyrite (FeS₂) or arsenopyrite (FeAsS)), or in ores where natural carbonaceous matter competes with dissolved-metal recovery—so this category is best treated as a family of ore-type decisions rather than a single universal flowsheet.
Gold (Au)
Gold (Au) is most often shaped by oxidation state, liberation, and solution recovery behavior across changing ore domains.
Silver (Ag)
Silver (Ag) frequently co-occurs with gold and base-metal sulfides, and its mineralogy and solution chemistry can shift the preferred recovery route.
Platinum (Pt)
Platinum (Pt) is commonly recovered through PGM-specific concentrate logic, where sulfide association and fine-grained textures control performance and product quality.
Palladium (Pd)
Palladium (Pd) typically follows PGM concentrate behavior, and its response depends strongly on mineral association and downstream product requirements.
Platinum Group Metals (PGMs: Rh, Ir, Os, Ru)
Platinum Group Metals (PGMs: Rh, Ir, Os, Ru) are often recovered together, and their variability is best managed through ore-type classification and concentrate-quality control.
Complex Design
Material Integrity
Heavy performance
Speed, flexibility
Typical Occurrence and Ore-Character Drivers
Precious metals occur across multiple geological styles, but plant design is governed less by deposit names and more by ore character—especially the transition from oxide to fresh sulfide zones, the presence of fines-generating clays such as kaolinite (Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄), and the distribution of value between free particles and sulfide-hosted textures. Because these drivers can change across the mine plan, precious-metal projects require deliberate variability thinking: what must remain stable in the process, what can flex through operating strategy, and what should be separated into variant circuits.
Design the Recovery, Deliver the Plant
Precious metals projects succeed when the flowsheet is designed around ore variability, and when the equipment and operating logic are delivered as one coherent system rather than as disconnected packages. YPT brings that continuity by linking metallurgical intent to engineering detail, and engineering detail to manufacturing-ready and site-ready deliverables—so you can progress from testwork to a stable, operable plant with confidence.
YPT — Your Partner from Ore Character to Metal Recovery
Complex Design | Material Integrity | Heavy performance | Speed, flexibility |