Directory Person

Name

Mr George Kyriakakis

Organisation

Extractive Resources LLC

Email

Mr George Kyriakakis

PGMs Used

Iridium, Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium, Ruthenium

Area of Expertise

Chemistry

PGM Knowledge

Precious metal specialist with more than 25 years experience in the beneficiation of gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium and ruthenium.

Chemistry of the precious metals, process design, hydro and pyrometallurgy.

Expertise spans floatation, hydrometallurgy including classical precious metal separations techniques and advanced solvent extraction circuits.

Extensive experience in pyrometallurgy includes sulfide smelting of primary ores and recycling of catalytic converters and PGM on alumina via carbon arc smelting and plasma smelting. Oxygen converting of furnace alloys containing precious metal in both sulfide and phosphorous matrix.

Expertise includes precious metals salts, solutions and organometallic compounds for use in the manufacture chemical catalysts and catalytic converters.