DNA-Based Services to Enhance Operational Efficiency

DNA is nature’s mechanism for data storage, and encodes vast amounts of data about the health, history, and potential of entire ecosystems.

DNA is everywhere. As the blueprint of life, you can find DNA wherever life exists. Even in the harshest areas of your mine site, DNA’s pervasiveness is a powerful asset: soil, water, waste rock, dust, and even tailings carry genetic signals that reveal microbial activity, ecosystem health, and environmental change.

Using genetic sequencing and barcoding to study DNA, Koonkie can interpret this invisible layer of data from your site. We use this data to pinpoint the organisms that are already thriving at your site, and use their DNA to decode how to they can be harnessed to increase yield, purity, and much more.

Koonkie finds native microbes that can increase biomining yields, reduce toxicity in tailings, help prospect for new ore deposits, serve as an indicator of environmental health, or we can customize our search to find organisms to help meet specific operational or regulatory needs.