ABOUT
THE COMPANY
Orizont Deschis is s a Romanian based company founded in 2015 specialised in the analysis and development of process technologies to extract values from complex industrial residues and secondary metal-bearing materials.
Many of these materials contain precious and platinum group metals, strategic metals, and base metals, but are difficult to evaluate because of heterogeneity, complex mineralogy and analytical bias.
For over a decade our work has focused on difficult polymetallic matrices where conventional assay and recovery methods often under-report or fail, so we approach these materials with particular attention to sampling, phase behaviour, dissolution chemistry, concentration behaviour, and recovery verification.
Our dual focus on environmental sustainability and economic value creation positions us as a key player in this domain, aligning perfectly with the vision for industrial diversification and green initiatives.
OPERATIONS
Orizont Deschis is familiar with the technical challenges associated with recovering and separating precious and platinum group metals. This allows us to confidently screen waste piles from different facilities to establish their economic potential and allows to differentiate between low and high-value processing targets within individual waste piles.
Additionally, we designed proprietary fluxes to concentrate, and capture the precious and platinum group metals through pyrometallurgical processing, achieving repeatable metals and platinum group metals recovery values at industrial scale in house, and through smelting and refinery partnerships.
Through a unique blend of innovation, sustainability, and economic opportunity, our goal is to contribute to global trade and economic development moving secondary metal-bearing materials from source to end consumer and contribute to a circular economy by unlocking the value of underutilised resources.
KEYS TO SUCCESS
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Research, development and ongoing improvement are integrated into our daily operations. This approach focuses on continuous innovation and provides us with a critical and crucial competitive industry advantage.
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Our material streams platform combines resource access, sampling, assay verification, recovery testing, process development, transaction structuring, and commercial routing. We therefore look at these materials not only from a technical recovery perspective, but also on a profitable trading, tolling, refining-return, or payable-metal basis.
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We possess a unique database of materials from all over Romania together with adequate extraction methods.
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Orizont Deschis has the methodology to enable an accurate evaluation of precious and platinum group metals within pyrite ash waste piles, and designed the proprietary fluxes to concentrate, capture and recover those precious and platinum group metals.
HISTORY
A long standing problem...
Romania’s sulfuric acid plants roasted millions of tons of pyrite concentrates (FeS2) for generations. The workhorse feed came from the Romanian Golden Quadrilateral and adjacent gold mining districts. These activities have a consistent formation process and history that informs the minerology and geochemistry of the resulting industrial tailings waste present today.
These activities have a consistent formation process and history that informs the minerology and geochemistry of the resulting refractory pyrite ash present today, an industrial residue that concentrates precious and critical metals and preserves a record of mine geology, beneficiation, roaster chemistry, and in-plant handling.
The shuttered facilities throughout this region currently present a significant environmental hazard with both airborne and groundwater contamination being present at the industrial sites.
RECYCLING
Orizont Deschis uses a mechanical process that is environmentally benign, and results in the transformation of head ore that is classified as hazardous into material that can be safely stored, transported, and sold. This indicates that, after running through the production process the remaining waste becomes environmentally safe for re-use in the construction industry as a source material for cement, and therefore 99% of the tailings by mass is either separated and commercialized as precious metals or safely recycled into the construction industry as an environmentally compliant source material
The significant amount of water consumed through the process is recycled for two-thirds with the balance being collected and processed by certified domestic water treatment companies.
Moreover our process does not generate air pollution as the oven areas in the production hall are closed and equipped with a capture, neutralisation and gas filtration system, meaning there is zero airborne environmental pollution.
These abilities alone have resulted in Orizont Deschis being approached by government representatives to assist in the clean-up of pyrite ash piles.
TECHNOLOGY
Our core technology was designed by our team in the early 1970’s and has been optimised since to maximise the recovery of precious and platinum group metals from pyrite ashes. Providing an environmentally responsible alternative to traditional metals recovery, Orizont Deschis has invented three independent breakthroughs related to the recovery of precious and platinum group metals.
First, accurate measurement and detection of precious metals within pyrite ash waste is an extremely difficult problem because of a triple encapsulation architecture of Au/Ag and Au/PGM tellurides as cores, magnetite/hematite shells, and an outer jarosite cement that can be further glazed by silica. Repeated tests of the same sample using standard assay. Our three laboratory methods resolve the industry bias and establish defensible grades for Romanian roasted pyrite ash. This allows us to confidently screen waste piles from different facilities to establish their economic potential and allows us to differentiate between low and high-value processing targets within individual waste piles.
Second, we have invented a technological process that allows us to concentrate the precious metals found within pyrite ash. This methodology results in the creation of a mineral concentrate many times higher in recoverable precious and platinum group metals value than the original head ore.
Third, Orizont Deschis uses proprietary flux designs to recover precious and platinum group metals values from the mineral concentrates through induction, plasma or electric arc furnace smelting using either copper or silver as collector.
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GREEN
At a social level, there is increasing pressure on politicians to reduce the costs on the environment from the "mining" industry. Metals do not lose their intrinsic properties during recycling and maintain their quality and functionality. The demand for raw materials will increase in key sustainable innovations, including low-carbon transport, renewable energies and digital communications. Therefore, the EU needs to secure cost effective and sustainable access to raw materials.
Recycling provides a highly-efficient way of reintroducing valuable materials back into the economy, and, by doing so, tackling the key strategic challenges, while lowering environmental impacts and energy intensity of materials supply. Our extraction techniques emphasise environmentally responsible solutions to recover precious and platinum group metals. Virtually all materials we work with are “regenerated” and used repeatedly within the production cycle.
In our opinion, recycled precious and platinum group metals are the prime example of resource efficiency and closed loop recycling management.
We believe that the precious metals market is ready for a change to precious and platinum group metals, and that we must seize the opportunity now to communicate this to end customers because it is not only a question of where the precious and platinum group metals come from, but also how this can be achieved through a recycling process.
CONTACT US
ORIZONT DESCHIS SRL
13 Parfumului Street
3th District
Bucharest - Romania
T +40 372 927 372
Registration Code
RO34311109
Trade Registry J40/3932/31.03.2015