US Patent Issued to FREEPORT MINERALS on May 26 for "Methods and systems for leaching a metal-bearing material" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,735, issued on May 26, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"Methods and systems for leaching a metal-bearing material" was invented by Sarah Lyons (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for recovering a metal value from a metal-bearing material are provided. The method comprises agglomerating the metal-bearing material with an agglomeration solution comprising a raffinate, an oxidant, and citric acid or salts thereof to form an agglomerated metal-bearing material; leaching the agglomerated metal-bearing material with a leaching solution comprising the raffinate and the citric acid or salts thereof to produc...