Extraction of nickel from lateritic ores at atmospheric pressure with agitation leaching

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 33-38

  Buyukakinci E ^a   Topkaya, Y A ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agitative leaching; Atmospheric leaching; Cobalt extraction; Laterite; Nickel extraction

Indexed keywords

AGITATIVE LEACHING; ATMOSPHERIC LEACHING; COBALT EXTRACTION; LATERITE; NICKEL EXTRACTION;

ACIDS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COBALT; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; IRON OXIDES; MINERALS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL DEPOSITS; ORE TREATMENT; ORES; SOILS; SULFUR DETERMINATION; SULFURIC ACID;

LEACHING;

EID: 67349244830     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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