Bioleaching of low grade nickel sulfide mineral in column reactor

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition)

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1480-1484

  ZHEN, Shi jie ^a,b   QIN, Wen qing ^a   YAN, Zhong qiang ^b   ZHANG, Yan sheng ^a   WANG, Jun ^a   REN, Liu yi ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jinchuan Group Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

column reactor; magnesia adaptation; mixed mesophiles; nickel sulfide mineral; pre leaching

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; BIOLEACHING; COBALT; EXTRACTION; LEACHING; MAGNESIA; MINERALOGY; MINING; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; ORE TREATMENT; ORES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFIDE MINERALS; TRANSITION METALS;

COLUMN REACTOR; MAGNESIA ADAPTATION; MIXED MESOPHILES; NICKEL SULFIDE MINERAL; PRE-LEACHING;

MINERALS;

EID: 58649117605     PISSN: 10036326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(09)60029-7     Document Type: Article

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