Heap Leaching for Metals Recovery
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 162
Special Issue Editors
Interests: leaching; metals recovery; metals concentration; precious metals
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Interests: kinetics; leaching; synthesis; hydrometallurgy
Interests: leaching of precious metals; waste treatment; cationic exchange
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although today there are still many deposits to be explored and exploited, the residues of the mining industry and deposits with low metallic values represent an option for processing. In this aspect, there are many alternatives for the recovery of metallic values that can represent economic and environmentally friendly alternatives.
Heap leaching is one of those alternatives and is a suitable industrial process used to extract not only precious metals, but also others such as copper and uranium, to mention a few. Special attention is paid to the efficiency of the reagents, their reactions, and, above all, the recovery of valuable metals through an adequate concentration that allows the use of adequate refining and separation techniques. That is why this Special Issue tries to show the most recent advances on the properties, efficiency and characteristics of heap leaching. In this way, all works related to the evaluation of the best parameters used in this process, as well as the treatment of residues and the efficiency of the process, are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Eleazar Salinas-Rodríguez
Dr. Eduardo Cerecedo-Sáenz
Prof. Dr. Juan Hernández-Ávila
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heap leaching
- kinetics
- leaching reagents
- precious metals
- strategic metals
- rare earths
- metals concentration
