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Anax's processing strategy centres on industry standard sulphide flotation, supported and enhanced by two technologies: sensor-based ore sorting and bioleaching. Together, and in the right sequence, they are designed to do something that has long eluded base metal developers — make marginal material pay.**\nThe plant at the centre: An industry standard base metal Concentrator\nAt the heart of the Whim Creek flowsheet is a base metal concentrator using differential flotation to produce separate copper, zinc and silver/lead concentrates for sale to international smelters.  \nFlotation is proven and effective, but it is sensitive to feed quality. Dilute the mill with too much waste rock and the economics deteriorate rapidly: throughput requirements climb, reagent consumption rises, tailings volumes grow and concentrate grades slide. In a VHMS deposit like Whim Creek, where high-grade mineralisation sits alongside lower-grade and barren material, feeding the mill indiscriminately would undermine the entire operation.\nOre sorting addresses this directly and significantly de-risks the whole operation.\nOre Sorting: Decoupling Mine from Mill\nModern sensor-based sorters using X-ray transmission, or a range of other sensors assess individual rock fragments at conveyor speed and route each piece in milliseconds via compressed air jets. The result is continuous, automated pre-concentration of ore before it reaches the grinding circuit.\nThe most strategically important benefit at Whim Creek is the ability to decouple mining from processing. In a conventional operation, the mill sets the pace, and everything upstream conforms to it. Ore sorting breaks that dependency. Mining can proceed at rates dictated by mining economics — maximising equipment utilisation or accelerating access to high-grade zones — while sorted ore inventories (with increased grades) buffer against variability before the concentrator. Waste is rejected early and cheaply, before the costs of grinding, flotation, water and reagents are incurred. And the concentrator receives a higher-grade, more consistent feed, enabling it to be sized and optimised accordingly — with meaningful reductions in both capital and operating cost.\nBetween the high-grade fraction that goes to the mill, and the rejected waste lies a middlings fraction: material with intermediate metal content that does not justify full flotation processing but carries value for technically astute players. At Whim Creek, Anax has identified it as an opportunity and bioleaching as the technology to unlock it.\nBioleaching: Nature's Metallurgy at Industrial Scale\nBioleaching uses naturally occurring acidophilic bacteria to oxidise sulphide minerals and liberate contained metals into solution. The bacteria derive energy from the oxidation of ferrous iron and reduced sulphur compounds, attacking the sulphide mineral lattice in a self-sustaining process that can be optimised through control of temperature, pH, aeration and nutrients. The dissolved metals are then recovered by solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) to produce high-purity cathode metal and zinc sulphate crystal.\nBioleaching is not experimental technology. Commercial operations have been running since the 1980s, and global copper production from bioleach circuits now exceeds 500,000 tonnes per year. The process is well-suited to the Whim Creek middlings: it is low capital-intensity compared to a mill circuit, tolerant of fine-grained and complex mineralogy, and can operate as a parallel stream alongside the concentrator without disrupting primary processing. Material that would otherwise be stockpiled indefinitely becomes a continuous source of cathode copper.\nCopper bioleaching has historically worked well on secondary sulphide minerals like chalcocite and covellite. Primary chalcopyrite is a different proposition and Anax has developed a proprietary bioleaching process specifically engineered to overcome chalcopyrite passivation. Through a combination of process chemistry innovations, bacterial culture optimisation, and controlled leach conditions that inhibit passivating layer formation, the company has demonstrated the process delivers attractive leach kinetics and copper recoveries from chalcopyrite.  The specific process details remain commercially confidential, but the technical outcome is clear.\nThe commercial implications extend well beyond Whim Creek. Chalcopyrite accounts for the majority of global copper reserves. Hundreds of deposits sit stranded or sub-economic partly because of the difficulty of treating this mineral. Operating heap leach mines face the transition from amenable secondary sulphides to refractory primary ore below. Tailings facilities worldwide contain decades of accumulated chalcopyrite that conventional processing left behind. A proven, proprietary chalcopyrite bioleach process addresses all of these scenarios. \nThis makes Anax something genuinely unusual in the junior mining sector: a company with both a development asset and a proprietary process technology, each capable of generating independent value, and each strengthened by the other.\nAn Integrated Flowsheet, A Compelling Proposition\nThe three elements of the Whim Creek flowsheet work together as a coherent system. Ore sorting routes high-grade material to the concentrator, rejects waste early, and directs middlings to the bioleach circuit. The concentrator produces copper, zinc and silver/lead concentrates on an upgraded, consistent feed. Bioleaching recovers additional copper and zinc from the middlings as cathode, via SX-EW, without smelter treatment costs.\nThe result is a more resource-efficient, capital-efficient and flexible operation than a conventional mill-only approach — one well suited to the variable mineralogy and conditions of the Pilbara VHMS deposits. And the chalcopyrite bioleaching technology whose value, if the addressable market for global copper treatment solutions is considered, is not captured in any conventional resource valuation of Whim Creek alone.\nIn a sector where brute force has long been the default, Anax is making the case for intelligence. It is an argument worth watching closely.\nContact at Anax Metals: Geoff Laing\nAbout ICAA:The International Copper Association Australia is the peak body for the copper industry in Australia, representing some of the country’s most influential companies in mining, manufacturing, production and recycling.\nConnectOre is an industry-wide collaboration to unlock innovation, advance responsible practices, and tackle mining industry challenges that are beyond the scope of any single organisation\nGet Involved\nhttps://connectore.org/\n","text":"**Ore sorting, sulphide flotation and bioleaching**\n\nThe Pilbara is iron ore country. But 120 kilometres east of Karratha, Anax Metals is pursuing a very different story at its Whim Creek copper-zinc-silver project with volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits that reward metallurgical sophistication over bulk processing. Anax's processing strategy centres on industry standard sulphide flotation, supported and enhanced by two technologies: sensor-based ore sorting and bioleaching. Together, and in the right sequence, they are designed to do something that has long eluded base metal developers — make marginal material pay.**\n\n**The plant at the centre: An industry standard base metal Concentrator**\n\nAt the heart of the Whim Creek flowsheet is a base metal concentrator using differential flotation to produce separate copper, zinc and silver/lead concentrates for sale to international smelters.  \n\nFlotation is proven and effective, but it is sensitive to feed quality. Dilute the mill with too much waste rock and the economics deteriorate rapidly: throughput requirements climb, reagent consumption rises, tailings volumes grow and concentrate grades slide. In a VHMS deposit like Whim Creek, where high-grade mineralisation sits alongside lower-grade and barren material, feeding the mill indiscriminately would undermine the entire operation.\n\nOre sorting addresses this directly and significantly de-risks the whole operation.\n\n**Ore Sorting: Decoupling Mine from Mill**\n\nModern sensor-based sorters using X-ray transmission, or a range of other sensors assess individual rock fragments at conveyor speed and route each piece in milliseconds via compressed air jets. The result is continuous, automated pre-concentration of ore before it reaches the grinding circuit.\n\nThe most strategically important benefit at Whim Creek is the ability to **decouple mining from processing**. In a conventional operation, the mill sets the pace, and everything upstream conforms to it. Ore sorting breaks that dependency. Mining can proceed at rates dictated by mining economics — maximising equipment utilisation or accelerating access to high-grade zones — while sorted ore inventories (with increased grades) buffer against variability before the concentrator. Waste is rejected early and cheaply, before the costs of grinding, flotation, water and reagents are incurred. And the concentrator receives a higher-grade, more consistent feed, enabling it to be sized and optimised accordingly — with meaningful reductions in both capital and operating cost.\n\nBetween the high-grade fraction that goes to the mill, and the rejected waste lies a middlings fraction: material with intermediate metal content that does not justify full flotation processing but carries value for technically astute players. At Whim Creek, Anax has identified it as an opportunity and bioleaching as the technology to unlock it.\n\n**Bioleaching: Nature's Metallurgy at Industrial Scale**\n\nBioleaching uses naturally occurring acidophilic bacteria to oxidise sulphide minerals and liberate contained metals into solution. The bacteria derive energy from the oxidation of ferrous iron and reduced sulphur compounds, attacking the sulphide mineral lattice in a self-sustaining process that can be optimised through control of temperature, pH, aeration and nutrients. The dissolved metals are then recovered by solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) to produce high-purity cathode metal and zinc sulphate crystal.\n\nBioleaching is not experimental technology. Commercial operations have been running since the 1980s, and global copper production from bioleach circuits now exceeds 500,000 tonnes per year. The process is well-suited to the Whim Creek middlings: it is low capital-intensity compared to a mill circuit, tolerant of fine-grained and complex mineralogy, and can operate as a parallel stream alongside the concentrator without disrupting primary processing. Material that would otherwise be stockpiled indefinitely becomes a continuous source of cathode copper.\n\nCopper bioleaching has historically worked well on secondary sulphide minerals like chalcocite and covellite. Primary chalcopyrite is a different proposition and Anax has developed a proprietary bioleaching process specifically engineered to overcome chalcopyrite passivation. Through a combination of process chemistry innovations, bacterial culture optimisation, and controlled leach conditions that inhibit passivating layer formation, the company has demonstrated the process delivers attractive leach kinetics and copper recoveries from chalcopyrite.  The specific process details remain commercially confidential, but the technical outcome is clear.\n\nThe commercial implications extend well beyond Whim Creek. Chalcopyrite accounts for the majority of global copper reserves. Hundreds of deposits sit stranded or sub-economic partly because of the difficulty of treating this mineral. Operating heap leach mines face the transition from amenable secondary sulphides to refractory primary ore below. Tailings facilities worldwide contain decades of accumulated chalcopyrite that conventional processing left behind. A proven, proprietary chalcopyrite bioleach process addresses all of these scenarios. \n\nThis makes Anax something genuinely unusual in the junior mining sector: a company with both a development asset and a proprietary process technology, each capable of generating independent value, and each strengthened by the other.\n\n**An Integrated Flowsheet, A Compelling Proposition**\n\nThe three elements of the Whim Creek flowsheet work together as a coherent system. Ore sorting routes high-grade material to the concentrator, rejects waste early, and directs middlings to the bioleach circuit. The concentrator produces copper, zinc and silver/lead concentrates on an upgraded, consistent feed. 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We want to ensure that you get the information, content, and experiences that matter most to you. ConnectOre is committed to protecting the privacy of its stakeholders, communities, and other contacts.\n\n## Scope\n\nThis privacy policy applies to all personal data processed by full-time and part-time employees, volunteers when acting on behalf of ConnectOre contractors and partners doing business on behalf of ConnectOre, as well as all legal entities, all operating locations in all countries, and all business processes conducted by ConnectOre.\n\n## Information Collected\n\n#### What information do we collect?\n\nConnectOre collects the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent section:\n\n  * Your name and contact details\n  * Online profile data/usage\n  * Contact information\n  * Social media profile information\n  * Education and professional information\n  * Registration and participation in ConnectOre events and activities \n  * Information about service usage\n  * Cookies\n  * Authentication data\n  * Location information\n  * Author and peer review information\n  * Other information you upload or provide to us\n\n#### How do we use your information?\n\nConnectOre uses (and, where specified, shares) your personal information for the following purposes:\n\n  * To provide support or other services. ConnectOre may use your personal information to provide you with support or other services that you have ordered or requested. ConnectOre may also use your personal information to respond directly to your requests for information, including registrations for webinars, or other specific requests, or pass your contact information to the appropriate ConnectOre supplier or reseller for further follow-up related to your interests.\n  * To provide information based on your needs and respond to your requests. ConnectOre may use your personal information to provide you with notices of new product releases and service developments.\n  * To administer products. ConnectOre may contact you if you make use of (digital) products we offer, to confirm certain information (for example, that you did not experience problems in a download process). We may also use this information to confirm compliance with licensing and other terms of use and may share it with your company/institution.\n  * To assist in your participation in ConnectOre activities. ConnectOre will communicate with you, if you are participating in certain ConnectOre activities such as ConnectOre Summit, authoring or reviewing a ConnectOre article, or ConnectOre humanitarian activities. ConnectOre may send you information such as update messages related to those activities (such as but not limited to the event's content, and event logistics)\n  * To update you on relevant ConnectOre events and opportunities. ConnectOre may communicate with you regarding relevant ConnectOre events and opportunities.\n  * To protect ConnectOre content and services. We may use your information to prevent potentially illegal activities and to enforce our terms and conditions.\n  * To get feedback or input from you. In order to deliver products and services of most interest to our stakeholders, from time to time, we may ask you to provide us input and feedback (for example through surveys).\n\n#### How can you control your information?\n\nYou can control the information we have about you and how we use as follows:\n\n  * If you are a registered guest for ConnectOre Annual Summit 2021, any request for review, revise or correction of your personal data can be sent to john.fennell@copper.com.au specifying your request.\n\n#### Personal data about minors and children\n\nConnectOre does not knowingly collect data from or about children under 16 without the permission of parent(s)/guardian(s). If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 16, please contact us.\n\n#### How will you know if the Privacy Policy is changed?\n\nConnectOre may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes you will be notified by means of a notice on our website prior on the date the change becomes effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.\n\n## Technical And Regulatory Information\n\n#### Logging practices\n\nConnectOre automatically records the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of visitors. The IP address is a unique number assigned to every computer on the internet. Generally, an IP address changes each time you connect to the internet (it is a \"dynamic\" address). Note, however, that if you have a broadband connection, depending on your individual circumstance, the IP address that we collect may contain information that could be deemed identifiable. This is because, with some broadband connections, your IP address doesn't change (it is \"static\") and could be associated with your personal computer.\n\nAs well as recording the IP addresses of users, ConnectOre may also keep track of sites that users visited immediately prior to visiting ConnectOre's website and the search terms they used to find it. We keep track of the pages visited on ConnectOre's website, the amount of time spent on those pages and the types of searches done on them. Your searches remain confidential and anonymous. ConnectOre uses this information only for statistical purposes to find out which pages users find most useful and to improve the website.\nConnectOre also captures and stores information that you transmit. This may include:\n\n  * Browser/Device type/version\n  * Operating system used\n  * Media Access Control (MAC) address\n  * Date and time of the server request\n  * Volume of data transferred\n\n#### External links behaviour\n\nSome of the links on ConnectOre's websites link to other sites created and maintained by other public- and/or private-sector organizations. ConnectOre provides these links solely for your information and convenience. When you transfer to an outside website, you are leaving ConnectOre domain, and ConnectOre's information management policies no longer apply. ConnectOre encourages you to read the privacy statement of each external website that you visit before you provide any personal data.\n\n#### Cookies and web beacons\n\nCookies and web beacons are electronic placeholders that are placed on your device by websites to track your individual movements on that website over time. ConnectOre uses both session-based cookies (which last only for the duration of the user's session) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device and provide information about the session you are in and waits for the next time you use that site again).\n\nThese cookies and web beacons provide useful information to ConnectOre, enabling us to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's access to and use of our sites, allows us to track usage behavior, and to balance the usage of our websites on all ConnectOre web servers.\nTracking cookies, third-party cookies, and other technologies such as web beacons may be used to process additional information, enable non-core functionalities on ConnectOre website and enable third-party functions (such as a social media \"share\" link). 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