The group's principal activity is to develop technology for metal extraction and recovery. It includes research in microbiology on how microbial cells efficiently acquire their essential nutrient metals such as calcium, copper, zinc, etc. The group's technology has applications like recovery of precious metals from ore and concentrates, processing of industrial wastes into purified metals and specialty chemical products and environmental remediation of hazardous metals from contaminated sites. It developed a proprietary process for the recovery, separation and purifying of a range of metals.
