Recovery of metal values from copper - Arsenic minerals and other related resources

Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 247-298

  Filippou, Dimitrios ^a   St Germain, Pascale ^b   Grammatikopoulos, Tassos ^c  

^a Ville Mont Royal ^*  (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Copper; Enargite; Metallurgy; Mineral processing; Tennantite

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; GOLD; PH; PYROMETALLURGY; SILVER; SULFIDE MINERALS;

COPPER-GOLD DEPOSITS; ENARGITE (CU3ASS4); ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY; MINERAL PROCESSING;

COPPER;

EID: 34347233116     PISSN: 08827508     EISSN: 15477401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08827500601013009     Document Type: Article

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