US Patent Issued to FREEPORT MINERALS on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for subsurface metal recovery" (American, Brazilian, Peruvian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,445, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"Systems and methods for subsurface metal recovery" was invented by Casey J. Clayton (Ariquipa, Peru), Richard Melecio Sanchez (Central, Ariz.), Raquel Crossman (Mesa, Ariz.), Luciano Kiniti Issoe (Sao Paulo), Tianfang Ni (Boston), Oleksandr Klesov (Lexington, Mass.), Luke Gerdes (Framingham, Mass.), Muneeb Alam (Alexandria, Va.), Joanna M Robertson (Thatcher, Ariz.), Chase Zenner (Tucson, Ariz.) and John Warren Dean Jr. (Thatcher, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method comprising determining an ore map for a heap to identi...