Current and Future Trends in Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 128
Special Issue Editor
Interests: materials charakterization; materials recycling; atomic emission spectroscopy analysis; biomaterials; metal implants; nonferrous metals recovery; mineralurgy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mineral processing is a branch of science and technology that deals with processing natural and synthetic mineral materials and associated liquids, solutions, and gases to give them desirable properties. It is part of the technological sciences, although it includes elements derived from other fields of knowledge, particularly the natural sciences. Mineral processing is based on separation processes and involves the execution and description of separations and their analysis, evaluation, and comparison. Mineral processing, together with metallurgy, constitutes extractive metallurgy. Extractive metallurgy is a branch of metallurgy that deals with the processing of minerals and concentrates to recover their contained metal values.
This Special Issue will focus on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Mineral properties and utilization;
- The extraction, separation, and purification of minerals and metals;
- The post-treatment of effluents and tailings;
- The processing of advanced materials via pyro- and hydro-metallurgical routes.
Dr. Katarzyna Nowinska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mineral processing
- extractive metallurgy
- hydro-metallurgy
- pyro-metallurgy
- utilization
- mineral properties
