Pilot
Sites
// Enhancing mining efficiency through advanced technologies
// PILOT SITES
BLOOM collaborates with key mining sites across Europe and North America to enhance resource recovery, optimise processing, and improve sustainability through advanced technologies.
Tantalum & Niobium
Copper & Polymetallic ores
/ Site Name
Blue River
/ Country
Canada
/ About
Blue River in British Columbia contains tantalum and niobium deposits. Ore is processed through grinding, flotation, and refining to achieve recovery rates of 65–70%.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM aims to enhance flotation efficiency using mineral analysis, improving recovery and sustainability. Pilot testing will validate new technologies.
/ Site Name
Cobre Las Cruces
/ Country
Spain
/ About
Cobre Las Cruces near Seville is a leading copper mine, with a future project to treat polymetallic ores to be processed through advanced crushing, grinding, flotation and hydrometallurgical methods.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM will test sensors to improve flotation efficiency, reduce water use, and optimise resource recovery through pilot trials.
/ Site Name
Mostove Project
/ Country
Ukraine
/ About
The Mostove deposit in Ukraine holds tantalum and niobium resources within granites. Initial studies suggest potential for underground mining and by-product extraction.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM aims to define mineral characteristics, optimise processes, and validate technologies using pilot testing with real samples to unlock resources.
/ Site Name
Lalor-Copper Mountain
/ Country
Canada
/ About
Hudbay’s Copper Mountain and Lalor mines produce copper, gold, zinc, and silver using open-pit and underground methods with modern processing plants.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM will demonstrate sensor technologies to improve recovery rates, reduce costs, and optimise operations at these sites.
/ Site Name
Aguas Teñidas
/ Country
Spain
/ About
Aguas Teñidas, located in Huelva, Spain, is an underground massive sulfide mine typical of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, mainly producing copper, zinc, and lead concentrates with silver as a by-product. Sandfire MATSA operates a centralized processing plant for its three active underground mines — Aguas Teñidas, Magdalena, and Sotiel — using conventional crushing, grinding, and flotation processes.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM aims to optimize metal recovery by implementing advanced on-line MLA sensors at the grinding and flotation circuits, enabling real-time adjustment of operational parameters and validating the recirculation of middling materials. A new mineral processing approach based on detailed mineralogical data will be established and validated in pilot and real-plant environments.
Tantalum & Niobium
/ Site Name
Blue River
/ Country
Canada
/ About
Blue River in British Columbia contains tantalum and niobium deposits. Ore is processed through grinding, flotation, and refining to achieve recovery rates of 65–70%.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM aims to enhance flotation efficiency using mineral analysis, improving recovery and sustainability. Pilot testing will validate new technologies.
/ Site Name
Mostove Project
/ Country
Ukraine
/ About
The Mostove deposit in Ukraine holds tantalum and niobium resources within granites. Initial studies suggest potential for underground mining and by-product extraction.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM aims to define mineral characteristics, optimise processes, and validate technologies using pilot testing with real samples to unlock resources.
Copper & Polymetallicores
/ Site Name
Cobre Las Cruces
/ Country
Spain
/ About
Cobre Las Cruces near Seville is a leading copper mine, with a future project to treat polymetallic ores to be processed through advanced crushing, grinding, flotation and hydrometallurgical methods.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM will test sensors to improve flotation efficiency, reduce water use, and optimise resource recovery through pilot trials.
/ Site Name
Lalor-Copper Mountain
/ Country
Canada
/ About
Hudbay’s Copper Mountain and Lalor mines produce copper, gold, zinc, and silver using open-pit and underground methods with modern processing plants.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM will demonstrate sensor technologies to improve recovery rates, reduce costs, and optimise operations at these sites.
/ Site Name
Aguas Teñidas
/ Country
Spain
/ About
Aguas Teñidas, located in Huelva, Spain, is an underground massive sulfide mine typical of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, mainly producing copper, zinc, and lead concentrates with silver as a by-product. Sandfire MATSA operates a centralized processing plant for its three active underground mines — Aguas Teñidas, Magdalena, and Sotiel — using conventional crushing, grinding, and flotation processes.
/ RELEVANCE FOR BLOOM
BLOOM aims to optimize metal recovery by implementing advanced on-line MLA sensors at the grinding and flotation circuits, enabling real-time adjustment of operational parameters and validating the recirculation of middling materials. A new mineral processing approach based on detailed mineralogical data will be established and validated in pilot and real-plant environments.
