Leaching, Extraction and Separation Technologies for Metals Recovery
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metals have played an extremely important role in the development of global economics and quality of life. With the shortage of mineral resources and environmental pollution and climate change becoming more and more serious, efficient and clean extraction of metals from ores has gradually become the focus of attention of governments. Currently, hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy are the two most commonly used methods for extracting metals from ores. Hydrometallurgy involves additing the leaching agent solution to ore raw materials, making the corresponding metals in the materials generated by soluble compounds through chemical reactions (redox reaction, complexation reaction, etc.), converting them from a solid to a liquid phase, and then recovering the required metal components and corresponding associated compounds through separation, enrichment, and extraction, which are widely used in the extraction of precious and rare metals. Pyrometallurgical process is a method of metal extraction and resource recovery based on smelting and sintering processes. Here, metal elements are extracted and separated by heating and reduction reactions, which have obvious advantages when dealing with complex ores that are difficult to be treated by hydrometallurgy.
This Special Issue aims to collect a range of articles on different aspects of metal recovery for various minerals. The objective is to decipher all new methods, processes, and knowledge reagrding the metals recovery. The aim of this Special Issue is to create a collection of rigorous research articles, review papers, and perspectives on leaching, extraction, and separation technologies for metals recovery. We hope that this open-access Special Issue will provide a great opportunity for demonstrating the vast work of researchers from all around the world.
Dr. Kun Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- leaching
- extraction
- separation
- recovery
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