Probably, I will not reveal a big secret
if I tell the respected public such an inconvenient truth: In the
mining, there are no "new", "newest" and "innovative" technologies for
processing minerals today. This is all a marketing slyness for naive investors and shareholders.
All currently used ore processing technologies have been well known for decades of years and hundreds. Therefore, everything that is presented today by marketers as an "innovative cherry on the cake" is just a modernization and a combination of the well-known. For example, they cut and roughly compile two or more well-known technologies, simply mechanically combine them, and offer this to investors under the guise of "innovative science-intensive products." After all, "it has not exist before."
And all this is not done to improve production efficiency. Not at all! Production efficiency may even decrease. Nobody really cares about it. Their main task is to sell the same thing, but at a significantly higher price under an "innovative" sauce. I believe that old stuff should be worth the same old price.
As for me, the existing technologies for processing minerals have long been exhausted. Ores are becoming poorer, ores of complex composition are involved in processing, outdated processing methods, ineffective reagents are used. No matter how you modernize old technologies, it will not become new. All of this would have been great 100 years ago, but not now.
The mining industry has long been in need of something significantly newer, really new processing technologies, which will then be used for another 100 years or more. This is what I see as the main goal of my scientific activities and social and I do it on my own.
I'm not interested in deceiving people and selling old stuff to them at exorbitant prices.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
