Rare and Valuable
Metals Recovery

Critical metals reclaimed. Transforming waste. Circular solutions for a sustainable future.

Our Vision: Extracting critical metals from waste to drive sustainability. GSA Environmental (GSAe) provides new technological solutions to environmental problems posed by harmful industrial waste products.

GSAe’s ultimate goal is to create a zero-waste industry through implementing solutions to turn waste into by-products.

We use our advanced technical capabilities across diverse industry sectors to contribute to the growth of the Global Circular Economy. We partner with global refining and processing industries to streamline existing proprietary technology and develop new, effective methods of remediating waste products.

GSAe provides viable and economic solutions to new and existing waste products to support the global green energy strategy.

Cutting Edge Technology:
The full suite from start to finish

High levels of R&D expenditure, combined with engineering and operational experience means that GSAe is:
  • Uniquely able to extract vanadium, scandium, niobium, nickel (among others) from very low metal content materials on a viable commercial basis.
  • Continuously broadening the areas of application of its in-house technologies.
We have the knowledge and expertise to reduce specialist waste from industrial and chemical production processes to zero.

World class engineering capabilities and skills

GSAe is a highly skilled engineering and technology provider and process licensor with 25+ years global project experience in the remediation and reprocessing of a wide range of industrial waste.

We have an experienced management team combined
with a highly qualified and technical team with specialist knowledge of environmental and materials engineering.

The team have significant experience and expertise in metal recovery projects and the circular economy, innovating advanced processes to maximise resource recovery and minimise waste.

GSAe technology employs a sequence of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes to extract metals such as vanadium and nickel from a variety of feedstocks.

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Processing
The core of the technology is acidic and alkaline leaching of feedstocks, followed by selective metal precipitation, filtration of the precipitates and roasting stages as required. The technology can be run in either batch or continuous configurations. Over many years we have optimised this technology, adapting the chemistry for different qualities of feed-stock to isolate and extract a variety of metals as high purity saleable products and leaving non-hazardous wastes.

Technology Feedstocks

  • Power station fly ash
  • Gasifier residue
  • Flexicoke
  • Slurry hydrocracking
  • Spent sulphuric acid production catalyst
  • Spent refinery processes catalyst
  • Spent fine chemical and speciality chemical catalyst
  • Ores and ore concentrates

Technology Advantages

  • Power station fly ash
  • Gasifier residue
  • Flexicoke
  • Slurry hydrocracking
  • Spent sulphuric acid production catalyst
  • Spent refinery processes catalyst
  • Spent fine chemical and speciality chemical catalyst
  • Ores and ore concentrates
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We can help your processing become more efficient by
Re-Engineering Chemical Processes.
“We work with large-scale, global refining and processing plants to develop new, effective methods of cleaning up their operations, to provide more efficiency, higher and easier compliancy all whilst contributing to a greener future.”
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Who We've Worked With

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News

A Zero Waste Approach to TiO2 Manufacturing
Currently, TiO2 waste is neutralised and eventually landfilled.  Although the term used is neutralised, it tends to remain alkaline and hazardous because of its vanadium and TiO2 content.
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How To Make TiO2 Manufacturing More Efficient
TiO2 (Titanium Dioxide) is a pure white material and most people would recognise it as it is the main pigment used in paint, it is used in two-thirds of all pigments; there is an enormous global demand for the material.
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Recovering Critical Materials From Gasifier Cinder
GSA has recently completed several rounds of research to successfully recover vanadium and nickel from gasifier cinder.
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Uses of Vanadium: Renewable Energy and Transmission
Discovered in 1831, Vanadium is a metal named after the Swedish Goddess of Beauty and Fertility due to the brilliant and attractive colours of the chemical compounds in which it was first found.
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Uses of Vanadium: Transport
Vanadium’s ability to add strength and weldability to steel when the two are alloyed together, alongside its corrosive resistant properties makes it the perfect companion to modern-day transport.
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“We talk your language, and our vast experience in the chemical engineering field allows us to advise efficiently and effectively to solve the problems presented to us. Our capacities are wide ranging and we’re always looking to collaborate to provide our clients, and the environment the best outcome.”

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Case Studies

Case Study Heavy Crude Deep Conversion South America
Development from visualisation through to completion of Basic Engineering Package of a unique processing system to treat residue from the HDHPlus® unit being installed as part of their CP RPLC Deep Conversion Project. HDHPLUS® is a flagship technology for Venezuela having been developed in-country and is one of the emerging technologies for sustained bottom of the barrel oil processing.
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Case Study Heavy Crude Upgrading Middle East
GSAe undertook the CEP and BEP phases for a new plant to extract vanadium and nickel from flexicoke.
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Case Study Heavy Crude Upgrading Middle East 3
The intention is to build a new extra heavy crude refinery in the Northern Gulf. The refinery will employ a novel slurry catalyst technology called Heavy Residue Hydroconversion unit (HRH) to upgrade the crude feed oil, thereby increasing yield. The technology is particularly efficient for processing crudes from marginal oil fields
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Case Study Khuzestan Oil Refinery Due Diligence Report
During the project development and basic engineering design phases for a refinery project that GSAe were supporting, the crude and refined product markets altered significantly from that encountered when the economic case for the project was developed.
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Case Study Metals Extraction Facility Venezuela
GSAe undertook the CEP and BEP phases for a new plant to extract vanadium and nickel from flexicoke.
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“We provide knowledge and expertise to reduce specialist waste from industrial and chemical production processes to zero.”

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