Gold Eco-Leaching
📍Peru
High-efficiency ecological leaching for mercury-free alluvial gold extraction
A system using an ecologically-safe liquid medium to replace mercury with non-toxic products to capture gold
National University of Engineering Team
Interview with Adolfo La Rosa-Toro at the Innovation XChange
Reason for Applying
“It will allow us to scale our innovation to validate it as a system capable of recovering gold from black sand in a way that is more efficient and less harmful than mercury.”