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BacTech, Haileybury School of Mines to offer unique program

With a proposed pilot plant in nearby Cobalt, BacTech Mining Corporation has teamed up with the Haileybury School of Mines to create a new bacterial oxidation technician course, the only one of its kind in Canada.
Northern Ontario Business Staff

With a proposed pilot plant in nearby Cobalt, BacTech Mining Corporation has teamed up with the Haileybury School of Mines to create a new bacterial oxidation technician course, the only one of its kind in Canada.
The course material is being prepared in collaboration between Dr. Paul Miller, BacTech's vice-president of engineering and technology, and Dr. Chris Kennedy of the University of Toronto.
Officials are expecting the program to launch in September 2009.
Currently, BacTech is seeking to make use of its proprietary bioleaching technology to treat the arsenic-laden mine tailings scattered throughout the Cobalt area. In so doing, the company hopes to recover the silver and cobalt left behind.
The proposed plant, for which BacTech is still seeking government funding, would initially process 200,000 tonnes of tailings from the former Castle Mine near Gowganda.