The laboratories are engaged in carrying out investigations on the feasibility of recovering uranium and other elements from the ore.
Facilities exist for carrying out both physical beneficiation and hydrometallurgy.
In addition to conventional techniques, the mineral technology laboratory at Hyderabad has been in the forefront of using bacterially-aided leaching technique. The laboratories have been provided with crushers, grinders, equipment necessary for gravity concentration, flotation, magnetic separation and electrical separations. They also have facilities for carrying out investigations on the extraction of uranium from ores, purification by ion exchange and solvent extraction techniques and precipitation of uranium as diuranate. Recovery of xenotime from the riverine placers. Beneficiation of pyrochlore from carbonatitic soils.