Technological assessment of a mining-waste dump at the Dexing copper mine, China, for possible conversion to an in situ bioleaching operation

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1931-1936

  Wu, Aixiang ^a   Yin, Shenghua ^a,b   Wang, Hongjiang ^a   Qin, Wenqin ^c   Qiu, Guanzhou ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Dexing copper mine; Waste rock dump

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; BIOLEACHING; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER MINES; EXTRACTION; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; LEACHING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MINES; MINING; ORES; SLOPE STABILITY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ACIDIC WATERS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; COPPER METALS; DEXING COPPER MINE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH AND STEEP SLOPES; IN-SITU; LEACHING PROCESSES; MAIN FACTORS; SURFACE EROSIONS; UNSTABILITY; WASTE DUMPS; WASTE ROCK DUMP; WASTE ROCKS;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS;

COPPER;

CHALCOPYRITE; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEACHING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINING; PARTICLE SIZE; SLOPE STABILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLEACHING; CHINA; DUMPING; HAZARD; LEACHING; LIQUEFACTION; METAL EXTRACTION; MINING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA; COPPER; MINING; THIOBACILLUS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS;

EID: 57449091057     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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