Kinetics of gold cementation on copper in ammoniacal thiosulfate solutions

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 69, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 45-56

  Hiskey, J Brent ^a   Lee, Jaeheon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammoniacal thiosulfate; Cementation; Copper; Gold; Kinetics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COPPER; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; RATE CONSTANTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

GOLD CEMENTATION;

GOLD;

EID: 0037382549     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-386X(03)00003-3     Document Type: Article

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