Valuable Metals Recovery by Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 36403
Special Issue Editors
Interests: processing of ores, concentrates, liquid and solid technogenic waste—hydrometallurgical, flotation, physicochemical, chemical and electrochemical methods; wastewater purification; mobilization and immobilization of water and soil pollutants
Interests: new technologies in the processing of minerals (lead-zinc, copper-pyrite, copper-molybdenum ores); wastewater and washing acids purification; technogenic waste utilization; electrochemical technologies in water purification; energy state of minerals; environment protection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable development of our society, the breakthrough innovations, as well as we all need metals. All metals (not only precious and classified as critical for the present and near future) required both for high technologies and our everyday life are valuable and their demand will increase with time. Humankind is forced to use leaner and more complex processing for ores, which requires novel technological solutions for mineral processing and metal extraction. In order to obtain enough metals for our future, the recovery of metals from secondary sources, such as waste from mining, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy, has to be considered.
Potential challenges to future metals extraction technologies also include the accelerating climate change, the soaring energy prices, and, perhaps the most important future problem, the lack of clean water, along with the need to use resources efficiently and comprehensively, while also protecting the environment.
The solutions to all the aforementioned problems require new theoretical scientific background and technical developments, including reagents, and operational innovations of processes and technologies—when the problems associated with both primary ores and secondary technogenic resources are tackled.
Papers presenting solutions and discussing all the above-mentioned aspects and challenges to metals recovery by mineral processing and hydrometallurgy are invited for this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Marinela Panayotova
Prof. Dr. Vladko Panayotov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineral processing
- comminution
- magnetic separation
- flotation
- flow sheet
- flotation kinetics
- recovery
- sulphide ore
- oxide ore
- carbonate ore
- refractory ore
- flotation separation mechanism
- flotation selectivity
- flotation reagent
- electrochemical
- flotation concentrate
- process water
- water saving in mineral processing
- mineral processing wastewater treatment and recycling
- industrial testing
- flotation tailings
- mining tailings
- mineral recycling
- extractive metallurgy
- leaching
- leaching kinetics
- pregnant leach solution
- solvent extraction
- precipitation, cementation
- electrowinning
- water saving in hydrometallurgy
- extractive waste recycling
- sustainable recovery of metals
- control, optimization and automation in mineral processing and hydrometallurgy
- environment protection
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