Leaching of copper(I) sulphide by sulphuric acid solution with addition of sodium nitrate

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 70, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 143-151

  Vračar, Rajko Ž ^a   Vučković, Nataša ^b   Kamberović, Željko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Copper(I) sulphide; Kinetics; Leaching; Sodium nitrate; Sulphuric acid

Indexed keywords

LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

PHASE RATIO;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 17144463923     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-386X(03)00075-6     Document Type: Article

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