The commercial application of copper bioleaching, an environmentally-friendly approach for
low-grade and secondary mineral resources recycling, has increased worldwide since the …

China is one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world and this growth is
underpinned by growing demand for natural resources to meet base and precious metals …

Due to the differences in ore feeds and stacking procedures, segregated pore networks are
commonly observed in industrial heap leaching operations, which strongly affect the pore …

Mineral leaching is the key unit operation in metallurgical processes and corresponds to the
dissolution of metals. The study of leaching is carried out in many areas, such as geology …

As the world's second largest economy experiencing rapid economic growth, China has a
huge demand for metals and energy. In recent years, China ranks first, among all the …

Poor permeability, high mud and impurities contents, severe curing conditions and ore
complexity are primary challenges faced by Yangla Copper Mine (YCM) during acid …

The recovery and utilization of vanadium from vanadium-bearing shale is significant,
because vanadium is an important strategic metal. In this study, the method for extracting …

Compared with the traditional pyrometallurgical process, copper bioleaching has distinctive
advantages of high efficiency and lower cost, enabling efficiently extracts of valuable metal …

Though many studies pertaining to heap leaching have been carried out to study the
reaction kinetics in cylindrical columns, in the scaled up variants the extraction efficiency has …

Size-segregation and stratification (layering of ore into zones of different hydraulic
characteristics which results from commercial stacking practices), are commonly believed to …