BacTech Environmental Corporation was created as a result of the BacTech Mining Corporation Plan of Arrangement in December 2010. The Company uses its patented BACOX bioleaching technology to process toxic, arsenic-laden mine tailings. Bioleaching, in addition to stabilizing arsenic, oxidizes sulphides, thereby eliminating a major source of acid mine drainage, while also recovering precious and base metals from tailings for sale to market.
Clean technology describes technologies, products and services that minimize impacts on the environment by improving operational performance and productivity and reducing natural resources usage, energy consumption, waste and environmental pollution.