Small Mining Partnerships: BacTech Environmental is forming strategic partnerships with local small-scale miners in the Tenguel–Ponce Enriquez region to secure consistent feedstock for its planned 50-tonne-per-day bioleaching plant. These partnerships provide a mutually beneficial framework: BacTech gains access to arsenopyrite-bearing gold concentrates that are otherwise difficult or uneconomic for artisanal miners to process and sell, while miners benefit from higher payments and a safe, transparent, and environmentally responsible processing approach. 

The agreements typically include long-term supply commitments under fair-market terms, with BacTech offering premium pricing for material containing arsenic, plus community and social development benefits. The initiative aligns with Ecuador’s national priorities for formalizing small mining, creating local employment, and promoting sustainable mineral recovery. BacTech’s plant—backed by its proprietary BacOx™ bio-oxidation technology—will demonstrate how green metallurgy can coexist with small mining, setting a replicable model for other regions in Ecuador and Latin America.

Critical Minerals Recovery: BacTech Environmental’s Sudbury Basin initiative is centered on recovering critical and base metals from legacy pyrrhotite and pyrite tailings while converting waste into marketable, low-carbon products. Using its patent pending  Zero-Tailings bioleaching process, BacTech aims to extract nickel, cobalt, copper, and other critical elements, while simultaneously producing high-purity magnetite for green steelmaking and ammonium-sulphate fertilizer as an organic by-product.

The Sudbury project represents a new generation of circular-economy mining, transforming historic tailings into multiple revenue streams without generating new waste. BacTech’s pilot-scale work with MIRARCO and Laurentian University has confirmed key process steps, paving the way for a commercial demonstration plant. The initiative also supports Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy and positions BacTech as a domestic supplier of responsibly sourced materials essential to EV batteries and clean-energy technologies.

Concentrate and Tailings Reprocessing: BacTech Environmental is exploring opportunities in Peru to apply its BacOx™ bioleaching and Zero-Tailings technologies to existing mine tailings and gold operations with high arsenic or sulphide content. Peru’s extensive legacy tailings, many located in regions with ongoing artisanal and small mining activity, present ideal conditions for BacTech’s environmentally responsible processing model.

The Company is currently evaluating the existing market for gold concentrates including total tonnage and average grades of gold. Most of the material is purchased by Asian buyers and shipped smelters/roasters there. These projects would replicate the success of the Tenguel–Ponce Enriquez model by transforming problematic materials into clean, saleable metal products while mitigating arsenic and acid rock drainage risks. Through its expansion into Peru, BacTech aims to establish a second Latin American hub for green metal recovery, reinforcing its leadership in sustainable bioleaching across the Andes region.