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Canada
Centre Technologiques des Résidus Industriels (CTRI)
Fariborz Faraji is the Hydrometallurgist at Technological Center for Industrial Residues (CTRI) with background in mining, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. He has a PhD in Mining and Mineral Processing from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is experienced in both conventional and innovative processes to extract metals from primary and secondary resources. His main areas of interest are sustainable extraction of critical and strategic metals (mostly lithium, copper, nickel, zinc, magnesium, and manganese). Moreover, he is experienced in general gold cyanidation and advanced purification techniques. Although his specialty is hydrometallurgy, he has a good understanding of thermal and microbiological processes (pyrometallurgy and biohydrometallurgy). His recent activities are related to gold extraction, lithium recovery from spodumene, recycling spent lithium-ion battery, magnesium recovery, and waste vaporization.
