China's ion-adsorption rare earth resources, mining consequences and preservation

Environmental Development

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-136

  Yang, X Jin ^a   Lin, Aijun ^a   Li, Xiao Liang ^b   Wu, Yiding ^c   Zhou, Wenbin ^d   Chen, Zhanheng ^e  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING   (China)

^c JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Office of Chinese Society of Rare Earths   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental damage; Heap leaching; In situ leaching; Ion adsorption rare earths; Preservation; Surface mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887612929     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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