Nickeliferous pyrrhotite - "waste or resource?"

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 625-637

  Peek, Edgar ^a   Barnes, Arthur ^a   Tuzun, Asim ^b  

^a Xstrata Process Support   (Canada)

^b Xstrata   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Extractive metallurgy; Leaching; Roasting; Tailings

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL CONTEXT; COPPER INDUSTRY; COPPER ORE; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EXSOLUTION; FINLAND; FLOW SHEET; HEAP LEACHING; METAL PRICES; METAL VALUES; NICKEL INDUSTRY; NICKEL RECOVERY; NICKEL SULPHIDE; NICKEL-BEARING; ONTARIO; OPEN PIT MINES; ORE BODIES; PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT; ROASTING; SHALLOW LAKES; SULPHIDE ORES; SULPHURIC ACIDS; SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES;

BIOLEACHING; CALCINATION; COPPER DEPOSITS; COPPER SMELTING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; IRON ORES; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NICKEL; NICKEL DEPOSITS; NICKEL MINES; NICKEL SMELTING; OPEN PIT MINING; ORE ROASTING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; STANDARDIZATION; SULFURIC ACID; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAILINGS DISPOSAL; UNDERWATER MINERAL RESOURCES; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 79955871347     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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