About BiotaTec

About company

BiotaTec develops a nature-based solution raising the cost-effectiveness of bioleaching technology producing methane gas and extracting metals while lowering simultaneously the environmental impacts for low grade black ores, where different metal compounds are trapped in hard-to-break metallo-organic complexes. BiotaTec is the only institution in Estonia since regaining the independence in 1991 that has won and implemented a public procurement of R&D project investigating the bioleaching of Graptolite-Argillite (formerly known as Dictyonema Shale) published by Enterprise Estonia at 2014. Team of the company has also carried out 2 projects of preliminary feasibility investigations of bioleaching Argillite.