{"id":13,"date":"2024-04-04T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/cms\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:40:32","slug":"quienes-somos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/quienes-somos\/","title":{"rendered":"Research team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cobalto Verde aims to scale up cobalt recovery technology through bioleaching of tailings from IOCG (iron-copper-gold oxide) deposits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its researchers have already obtained and characterized a cobalt-enriched material and are in the process of patenting a bioleaching methodology and a consortium of biomining microorganisms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work has involved testing different bioleaching systems in bioreactors and has shown successful results in the laboratory, reaching a technology readiness level (TRL) of 6, which opens the door to subsequently move on to confined piles, with process water and conditions similar to those found in industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A multidisciplinary team of professionals from fields such as biotechnology, microbiology, biomining, geology, and mining engineering, among others, is working on its development.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\">Team<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cobalto Verde aims to scale up cobalt recovery technology through bioleaching of tailings from IOCG (iron-copper-gold oxide) deposits. Its researchers have already obtained and characterized a cobalt-enriched material and are in the process of patenting a bioleaching methodology and a consortium of biomining microorganisms. The work has involved testing different bioleaching systems in bioreactors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobaltoverde.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}