US Patent Issued to NEW WAVE ROYALTIES SOCIEDAD ANONIMA on April 7 for "Process for recovering materials from bauxite residue, microwave reactor for heating mining products and method for heating a mining product" (Brazilian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,185, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEW WAVE ROYALTIES SOCIEDAD ANONIMA (Montevideo, Uruguay).

"Process for recovering materials from bauxite residue, microwave reactor for heating mining products and method for heating a mining product" was invented by Lucas Arantes Araujo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention refers to a technically and economically viable process for recovery of relevant metallic and non-metallic contents from mining residues, particularly the bauxite residue, using it in its integral form. Such a process route uses energy from microwaves, assisted leaching and logic sequencing ...