Gold and Silver Mining

Driving value for the gold and silver mining process

Lower-grade ore, greater mineral complexity, tightening environmental regulations and increasing political pressures: These create ever-expanding responsibilities for today’s precious metals producers. But having an experienced partner can make all the difference.

Nalco Water offers precious metals flotation programs that drive value by helping improve efficiency and optimize total operational costs. We align our program goals with your key business drivers to ensure the best outcome.

Hitting Your Target

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In mineral processing, what you avoid can be as important as what you're trying to achieve. Choosing a partner with effective chemistry – and the expertise to go with it – can help you avoid downtime, audit deductions and water contamination. With proper and holistic processes in place, you can maximize recovery, grade and throughput.

Learn how Nalco Water can help you hit your target.

Designing Precious Metal Operations for Recovery, Grade and Throughput

Your gold and silver processing needs are unique. They require a chemistry program that considers safety, profitability, efficiency and product quality at all stages of the process while helping to sustain the surrounding environmental resources.

Depending on the unique characteristics of your ore, Nalco Water offers a comprehensive suite of gold and silver processing solutions that apply to leaching, milling, roasting and flotation. By choosing an experienced partner, you can significantly improve the recovery and grade of your product while maintaining productive performance and sustainable chemistry.

Mining Performance Solutions

Nalco Water is a partner who delivers economic and environmental value. By focusing on the entire precious metals operation, we help increase yield, grade and recovery while conserving energy, water and raw materials.

Using our gold and silver processing aids, our approach results in optimized productivity and throughput, which can positively impact your bottom line. We use decades of industry experience, innovative technologies, local on-site expertise and a global network of research labs and personnel to deliver the precious metal results you need.

Featured Program

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Flotation 360™

Mineral processing optimization can feel like a moving target. Changing ore, an incorrect formulation or failing to balance recovery and grade can impact your bottom line. But Nalco Water has your solution: Flotation 360. This digital technology helps you maximize productivity and optimize your flotation circuit performance.

Optimize your circuit with the predictive capabilities of Flotation 360 to help:

  • Improve performance to increase recovery and profitability
  • Enhance visibility of potential impacts of future ore changes, allowing for mitigation of any challenges in advance
  • Optimize reagent dosing and chemical consumption, improving the total cost of operations
  • Reduce maintenance challenges such as float cell valve failures, and spend less time manually troubleshooting

Silver and Gold Success Stories

Optimer IQ Flocculant Technology Helps Gold Processing Operation Save Over $3.5M Per Year in Gold Production

A gold mine in Eastern Europe commissioned Nalco Water to help them improve gold processing productivity and reduce costs. The mine applied a multi-stage/multi-facility process to manage its operations due to the complex nature of the ore that they were mining. The process included secondary decanter centrifuges, which Nalco Water targeted to help enhance production. Download the case study below to learn how Nalco Water deployed Optimer IQ technology and helped to save the mine more than $3.5 M per year.

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