Gangues and Clays Minerals as Rate-Limiting Factors in Copper Heap Leaching: A Review

Heap leaching is a firm extractive metallurgical technology facilitating the economical processing of different kinds of low-grade ores that are otherwise not exploited. Nevertheless, regardless of much development since it was first used, the process advantages are restricted by low recoveries and...

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Published in:	Metals
Main Authors:	Norman Toro, Yousef Ghorbani, Mehmet Deniz Turan, Pedro Robles, Edelmira Gálvez
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Subjects:	hydrometallurgy leaching gangues clays minerals heap leaching agglomeration
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/10/1539

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