El Capitan is committed to using environmentally-friendly methods in the evaluation, testing and extraction of precious metals. Environmental technology or green technology is the application of environmental science and green chemistry to conserve the natural environment and resources, and to curb the negative impacts of human involvement.
The vast majorityof mining operations around the world use cyanide to collect gold. The proprietary Wendell Method of alkali fusion is environmentally friendly in that it does not use cyanide in the recovery process.
