Scientific research and development company Haber Inc. (Pink Sheets: HABE) recently announced it made successful bulk production runs in its Massachusetts gold-processing facility, recovering over 36 ounces of gold from both electronic scrap (e-scrap) and mine ores.According to its latest press release, the company had performed a number of processing trials at its Massachusetts facility during the last four months, resulting in the recovery of around 300 pounds of Ghanaian ore with an amazing 99 percent extraction and recovery rate. In addition, the gold recovered from these trials proved 96 percent pure. In other words, the trials proved not only efficient, but amazingly effective.
“These first runs were not only successful technically but provided a wealth of essential production information for the future and have provided our first saleable gold worth approximately $25,000 in revenues,” Albert Conti, Haber’s president and COO, stated in the release. “[Our refining processes] performed very effectively on gold ore and e-scrap respectively and when the Aladdin line is completed, it will provide Haber with an even greater economic advantage over competing process methodologies.”
The Haber Gold Process is both non-toxic and more efficient than conventional solvents such as cyanide. This technology accelerates the gold extraction and recovery rate by four to ten times and may increase gold efficiencies from ores by a substantial factor. In addition, the company has developed the Haber Electronic Scrap System (HESS) recovery process for extracting metals from e-scrap, and has acquired in Ghana the prospecting and reconnaissance licenses to six concessions totaling 1,329 km2 in the gold prolific Sewfi belt where over 18 million ounces of gold have been discovered by major mining companies to date. The company has also developed a program for small scale miners called the Strategic Abatement of Mercury and Poverty (STAMP) which can eliminate the use of mercury being used globally by over 15 million people, and which contributes to nearly one-third of all the mercury contamination released into the environment.
The company’s other core technology is Electromolecular Propulsion (EMP), an electrochemical process that enables the electrically controlled movement or positioning of a variety of different molecules in seconds. It is distinguished from the techniques of electrophoresis and chromatography by its wide variety of potential applications and the greater speed and control of the results.
“We have embarked on a new way to recover metals commercially, and while there is still much to do, we will be generating revenues every step of the way,” Conti continued. “Our new facility is now a fully functional proving ground for all of Haber’s hydrometallurgical extraction and recovery technologies and our progress thus far has been dramatic.”
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