Heap leaching
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 118 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5087-1417-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heap leaching is an industrial mining process to extract precious metals, copper, uranium, and other compounds from ore via a series of chemical reactions that absorbs specific minerals and then re-separate them after their division from other earth materials. Comparable to in situ mining, heap leach mining differs in that it uses a liner to place amounts of ore on, then adds the chemicals via drip systems to the ore, whereas in situ mining lacks these pads and pulls pregnant solution up to obtain the minerals. This method is only slightly more friendly environmentally, however, and has still seen copious amounts of negative feedback from both environmentalists and health experts in the past twenty or more years. Since its original peak of popularity in the 1970s, the heap leach mining technique has been applied throughout the earth, but due to recent increases in negative environmental impact assessments has received more discussion...