Review of present cobalt recovery practice

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 205-216

  Moskalyk, R R ^a   Alfantazi, A M ^b  

^a Nordic Metall Consultants Inc   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Cobalt producers; Cobalt recovery; Electrowinning; Leaching; Solvent extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012954805     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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