Our biosurfactant additives are designed to optimize performance with leaching reagents. With micelles 20x smaller than traditional surfactants, they can penetrate deeper into rock pores. They enhance acid effectiveness by reducing surface tension, allowing the acids to reach and recover more metals/minerals efficiently.
Beyond preventing the formation of passivation layers, they allow for continuous chemical penetration in rock pores, facilitating material processing ranging from finer to coarser compositions. The result: increased recovery rates and less crushing needed, significantly reducing cost and energy expenditures in the overall mining process.