Unlocking Value from Low-Grade Ore

Heap Leaching

Heap leaching plays a vital role in cost-effective extraction of metals such as gold, copper, and uranium from low-grade ore. With highly distributed processes across leach pads, solvent extraction, and electrowinning, achieving consistent metal recovery demands reliable automation, precise flow control, and real-time measurement. Digital solutions help improve efficiency, reduce reagent waste, and support safer operations in challenging environments.

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Applied Solutions in Heap Leaching

Enhance Recovery and Reduce Losses

Improve consistency and yield in heap leach and SX/EW operations

Effective heap leaching depends on precise irrigation, stable chemical balance, and continuous performance monitoring across expansive sites. Smart automation and rugged control technologies optimize leach pad performance, manage reagent dosing, and monitor extraction processes in real time—reducing metal losses and supporting operational sustainability.

Optimize Every Stage of the Leaching Process

Heap Leaching Solutions in Action

From leach pad distribution to electrowinning tanks, consistent operation and metal recovery require accurate monitoring and flexible control strategies. Advanced digital solutions provide operators with actionable insights, enabling faster responses to process changes and avoiding downtime. Rugged field instrumentation, secure wireless networks, and scalable control systems deliver measurable improvements in safety, productivity, and recovery.

Improve Consistency Across the Leach Pad

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Enhance leach pad performance with real-time monitoring and control solutions that optimize irrigation rates and ensure even distribution of leaching agents. By preventing under- or over-irrigation, you can maintain optimal moisture levels, improve metal recovery, and reduce operating costs. Achieve greater consistency and efficiency across heap leaching operations while minimizing environmental impact.

Maintain Chemical Balance and Improve Efficiency

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Optimize solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX/EW) processes with advanced control strategies that maintain chemical balance, reduce variability, and enhance recovery efficiency. Improve visibility across leaching, extraction, and electrowinning stages to drive consistent product quality, increase throughput, and minimize reagent consumption.

Extend Equipment Life with Predictive Insights

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Continuously monitor the condition of fixed and mobile equipment using predictive insights to detect issues early. By identifying potential failures in pumps, valves, compressors, and mobile assets, you can reduce unplanned downtime, improve maintenance efficiency, and extend equipment lifespan across operations.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Discover helpful information about heap leaching processes, including leach pad design, solution flow control, and environmental considerations. These frequently asked questions can support more efficient, compliant, and cost-effective operations.

Miners can achieve higher and more consistent metal recovery by automating their heap leach monitoring.

Miners can improve safety of personnel by implementing wireless leach pad monitoring solutions.

Remote monitoring or remote asset monitoring is a critical tool for mining since mining assets are geographically dispersed. It involves the data collection from mobile mining assets that provides status and performance from a distance.

Condition monitoring is a tool that assesses machine health and integrity. It involves various measurement acquisition types and delivers the diagnostic details necessary to predict machine failure. Condition monitoring can be applied to stacker reclaimers, electric rope shovels, crushers, conveyors, and several other machine types.