Rio Tinto Kennecott’s integrated copper mining and smelting operations in Utah will be the site for development of technology to improve recovery of the critical minerals, cobalt and bismuth, it was announced recently. Fortune Minerals Ltd. of London, Ontario, Canada, and mining giant Rio Tinto, owner of the Kennecott operations, are collaborating to develop the technology. Under a memorandum of understanding signed between the companies, testing will be done in Utah and at Fortune’s planned Alberta, Canada, refinery.
The partnership aims to maximize the value of critical mineral supply chain investments and increase Fortune’s planned cobalt and bismuth refining operations to process co-product streams of the minerals recovered from the Please log in to see the rest of this story.
