How does bioleaching start?

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 69, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 109-116

  Lizama, H M ^a   Fairweather, M J ^a   Dai, Z ^a   Allegretto, T D ^a  

^a Teck Cominco Metals Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Monod type kinetics; Zinc sulphide

Indexed keywords

LEACHING; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; ZINC SULFIDE;

LOGISTIC EQUATIONS;

HYDROMETALLURGY;

EID: 0037382753     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-386X(03)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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