Jack Zhang

Mining

Job Title

Senior Engineer, Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy

Jack Zhang is a Senior Engineer, Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy, at SRC. His areas of focus include applied R&D and process development for uranium, potash, rare earths, gold, base metals and mine water treatment. He previously served as a Plant Metallurgist at Cameco and as a Process Engineer at SINOPEC.

Posts by this Author

engineer in blue coveralls working in pilot plant

July 16, 2018

Getting more value from brines: tech improvements reduce costs, increase recoveries for lithium

written by Andrew Downing , Jack Zhang and Bryan Schreiner

The demand for lithium is projected to increase 73 per cent by 2025. Lithium extraction is often expensive and time consuming, so how can mining companies keep up with this fast-rising demand? Keep reading to learn about new advances in lithium recovery technologies.

Row of glass jars filled with rare earths

January 26, 2015

Can Innovation in Rare Earths Solve Processing Challenges?

written by Jack Zhang

The versatility of rare earths has led to their use in an ever-increasing variety of applications in new technologies. Consequently, demand for rare earths has increased significantly. Everybody wants to extract rare earths because they’re so important, but metallurgical processing is complicated and comes at a high cost.