Engineering design for a ferric chloride leaching plant to leach complex base metal sulphides

CIM Bulletin

Volumn 90, Issue 1009, 1997, Pages 57-63

  Smith, W M ^a   Brooks, P J ^a   May, R A ^b  

^a Neill and Gunter Limited   (Canada)

^b Richard May and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base metal sulphides; Ferric chloride leaching plants; Leaching plants; Mineral processing

Indexed keywords

COPPER; IRON COMPOUNDS; LEACHING; LEAD; ORES; OXIDATION; PYROMETALLURGY; SILVER; ZINC;

BASE METAL SULPHIDE; FERRIC CHLORIDE LEACHING PLANT; MINERAL PROCESSING; PYROMETALLURGICAL OXIDATION;

MINING ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031120297     PISSN: 03170926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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