Researchers from the University of South Australia have adopted a technique known as “microfluidics”, which is used commercially to separate and purify biological samples of proteins, DNA and blood, for mineral processing. The method can be used to extract copper quickly and efficiently, said postdoctoral researcher in microfluidics Craig Priest, and could potentially be scaled up to industrial levels for recovering nickel, uranium, gold, platinum and others.

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