The fungal and chemolithotrophic leaching of nickel lateritesChallenges and opportunities

GS Simate, S Ndlovu, LF Walubita - Hydrometallurgy, 2010 - Elsevier
… status, challenges and opportunities arising from the microbial leaching of nickel laterites.
As … of nickel laterites; (2) provide a review of some of the conventional leaching methods for …

Global trends and environmental issues in nickel mining: Sulfides versus laterites

GM Mudd - Ore Geology Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
… Globally, the bulk of historic Ni production has been derived … Ni resources are contained
in laterite ores. This unusual difference is due mainly to the challenges of processing laterite

[PDF][PDF] Nickel laterite deposits-geological overview, resources and exploitation

M Elias - Giant ore deposits: Characteristics, genesis and …, 2002 - researchgate.net
… This paper reviews the nature and genesis of nickel laterite … deposits as commercial
nickel producers. The importance of … to overcome engineering challenges inherent in their …

[PDF][PDF] The past and the future of nickel laterites

AD Dalvi, WG Bacon, RC Osborne - PDAC 2004 International …, 2004 - academia.edu
Nickel laterites occur in present or past zones of the earth that have experienced prolonged
… This is a major challenge. The existing laterite producers have an excellent opportunity to …

Challenges in processing nickel laterite ores by flotation

S Farrokhpay, L Filippov - International Journal of Mineral Processing, 2016 - Elsevier
… minor nickel upgrades have been reported. Thus, the challenge of processing nickel laterite
ores … nickel in laterite ores (Quast et al., 2015a). The only isolated case with an acceptable …

Nickel laterite beneficiation and potential for upgrading using high temperature methods: A review

L Zappala, R McDonald… - Mineral Processing and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… The results show reduction roasting followed by magnetic separation is effective for upgrading
nickel ores, but challenges with this technology are the potentially high reagent usage …

Ultramafic nickel laterites in Indonesia (Sulawesi, Halmahera): mining, nickel hyperaccumulators and opportunities for phytomining

A Van der Ent, AJM Baker, MMJ Van Balgooy… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
… lateritic nickel mining … , and nickel hyperaccumulators in particular can potentially be used
in phytomining. The phytomining operation uses hyperaccumulators to extract residual nickel

[PDF][PDF] Developments in the hydrometallurgical processing of nickel laterites

D Robinson, R Donald, W Zhang, F Carthy - Proceedings of COM, 2017 - researchgate.net
… studies of nickel laterites relating to the following topics: • Geology and mineralogy; • Laterite
… could generally be upgraded and the significant geotechnical and hydrological challenges (…

The new century for nickel resources, reserves, and mining: Reassessing the sustainability of the devil's metal

GM Mudd, SM Jowitt - Economic geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
challenges facing the minerals industry globally, with a number of projects that have faced
delays or problems associated with these challenges … subtypes of Ni laterite and magmatic …

[HTML][HTML] Ni (Co) Laterite Deposits of Southeast Asia: A Review and Perspective

L Soh Tamehe, Y Zhao, W Xu, J Gao - Minerals, 2024 - mdpi.com
… on the grade of Ni laterite ore. Given the growing demand of modern society for Ni(Co) ore
… understanding of the genesis of this laterite deposit and geological features of Ni(Co) ore, as …