Paul Breuer

Principal Research Scientist – Gold Processing, CSIRO

Paul is a chemical engineer with over 20 years’ experience in gold hydrometallurgy research and process optimisation, including: cyanidation of copper-gold ores and concentrates; impact of sulfide minerals; cyanide analysis, deportment and speciation; cyanide destruction and recycle processes; in-place/in-situ leaching; and thiosulfate based processes for gold recovery.  His major research and development focus in recent times has been supporting the commercialisation by Clean Mining and industry uptake of thiosulfate based processes for gold recovery.