Progress toward a mining strategy based on mineral leaching with secondary recovery

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-25

  Forbes, Lawrence K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary integral method; Mineral leaching; Water balloon

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; LEACHING FLUID; MINERAL LEACHING; SECONDARY RECOVERY; WATER BALLOON;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALS; MINING; ORES; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RECOVERY; ROCKS; WATER;

LEACHING;

LEACHING; MINERAL PROCESSING;

LEACHING; MINING METHOD; ORE RECOVERY;

EID: 0029656695     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0307-904X(95)00104-R     Document Type: Article

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