Environmentally Friendly Gold Recovery Stops Mercury Pollution - iConcentrator enhanced gravity concentrators

Social Goals

In many developing countries it is common for people to be living on less than a dollar or two per day; in 2002 the United Nations Population Fund estimated that there were over 3 billion people (half the entire world’s population) worldwide living on less than $2 per day. This lack of economic wellbeing often results in debilitating quality of life impacts such as a lack of access to education and adequate health care.

Artisanal and small scale mining provides a means of income for tens of millions of people worldwide. Although potentially more than a few dollars a day, this income is still often barely enough to meet essential needs, let alone enough to work towards increases in economic position and quality of life. In the face of this, these miners are often losing significant quantities of gold due to inefficient or ineffective mineral processing techniques because of a lack of education as well as a lack of access to safe, affordable and effective technology.

The iConcentrator aims to knock down these barriers by providing state of the art, safe, easy to understand and easy to operate mineral processing technology at a small fraction of the price needed to obtain similar gold concentration performance at an industrial level. The iConcentrator has the potential to increase gold production as well as gold recovery in order to have a positive compounding effect on the economic position of artisanal and small scale miners around the world.