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Bullion World | Issue 02 | June 2021
The pursuit for "
refining excellence Mining boards want to
foster relationships with
companies that share
their environmental,
social and corporate
governance (ESG) goals.
"
Mr David Woodford
Chief Commercial Officer, Pallion, ABC Refinary
Independence. Flexibility. Innovation. MARKET INNOVATOR
These are the three ethos that drive
ABC Refinery, the refining division of
Pallion. Simply put, we asked ourselves Today’s miners know it’s much bigger (EGR) technology, ABC Refinery boasts
what refining services needed to change than to ‘extract rock’ and ‘forward the world’s largest environmentally
today to ready ourselves for tomorrow. to someone else’. Producers are friendly Acidless Separation (ALS)TM
ABC has always provided industry continuously innovating their extraction refining capacity.
leading bullion and jewellery products processes, yet Australia’s precious
for the market. Yet we noticed there was metals refining industry was stuck using ALS is the world’s most environmentally
something missing from it. That was, processes that had barely changed in responsible refining technology and
a true understanding how and where the past century. requires no acid to refine gold and silver
precious metals are sourced. Few end to almost pure standard. This technology
users know where their metals came ‘The old way’ of refining no longer fit allows for the removal of silver and other
from. the modern miner and their corporate elements from alloys using vacuum
missions. Mining boards want to foster distillation technology.
We wanted to improve the refining relationships with companies that share
technique to reduce the sector’s overall their environmental, social and corporate As a true ‘green’ technology, the ALS
impact on the environment? What could governance (ESG) goals. Meaning process uses no chemicals, minimal
we do to enhance the totality of the decades old techniques don’t cut it. amounts of water and emits no
supply chain? Technology and innovation are critical production of fumes, smoke or other
to ensure that likeminded partners work noxious effluent thereby controlling waste
In doing so, can we assure our partners together to reach their ESG plans. and minimising environmental impact.
that any precious metals from ABC
Refinery – bullion or jewellery – matches ABC Refinery is recognized as a global Unlike traditional refining technologies,
with our own corporate obligations? That leader in this regard. In addition to its ALS does not use chemicals and
question was always on mind. proprietary electrolytic gold refining produces no exhaust fumes. It also
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