US Patent Issued to Jetti Resources on March 11 for "Extraction of base metals using carbonaceous matter and a thiocarbonyl functional group reagent" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,266, issued on March 11, was assigned to Jetti Resources LLC (Boulder, Colo.).

"Extraction of base metals using carbonaceous matter and a thiocarbonyl functional group reagent" was invented by Zihe Ren (Richmond, Canada), Nelson Mora Huertas (Boulder, Colo.), David Dixon (Delta, Canada) and Edouard Asselin (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the use of carbonaceous matter and a reagent comprising a thiocarbonyl functional group, for example, in a method for extracting a base metal such as copper from a material comprising the base metal. Such methods can comprise contacting the material...