Heap Leaching of Minerals: Current Applications and New Developments
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 2982
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heap leaching is an established mineral processing technology, utilised to economically extract base and precious metal commodities. The application of heap leaching has benefited from improvements in heap design and engineering, coupled with a greater understanding of fundamental parameters, including leach chemistry, mineralogy, microbiological catalysis, hydrodynamics, gas-flow, heat generation and particle interaction phenomena.
The intent of this Special Issue is to inform the wider technical community of recent developments in the application of heap leaching to various commodity resources (including waste products). The application of new technology or studies upon established systems that will improve heap leaching are also welcomed to facilitate improvements in industrial scale processing.
Dr. Denis Shiers
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heap leaching
- heap engineering/control
- lixiviant (bio)chemistry
- ore and gangue mineralogy
- modelling
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