Clean iX® – Continuous Ion Exchange

Sunrise Energy Metals Clean-iX^® continuous ion exchange process provides highly efficient extraction and purification for a range of valuable strategic metals from slurries and solutions.

The base technology for the Clean-iX^® process was developed by the All Russian Research Institute of Chemical Technology (ARRICT) over a period of 40 years. Sunrise Energy Metals has subsequently developed this technology for the recovery of strategic metals from ores and tailings where conventional routes are either economically marginal or pose an unacceptable environmental burden.

Clean iX^® utilises a resin in pulp (RIP) method where solid ion exchange resin beads are directly contacted with the leached slurry. This achieves an extraction rate of more than 98% of the contained metal in the solution. Ion exchange resins are ideal for recovery and concentration of lower concentration metals, with reduced capital and operation costs compared with conventional processing flowsheets.

Clean-iX^® can be used to recover the following metals

 

Precious Metals	Platinum Group Metals	Base Metals	Rare Earth Elements	Specialty Metals
Gold Silver	Platinum Palladium Rhodium Iridium	Copper Nickel Cobalt Zinc	Light (LRE) Medium (MRE) Heavy (HRE)	Scandium Vanadium Niobium Tantalum Uranium Titanium