2014-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2014 Volume 2: Mineral Processing
| Editors: | Kongoli F |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 446 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-04-1 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Modeling Hydrometallurgical Extraction of Metals from Heterogeneous Materials
Michael Free1;1UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Salt Lake City, United States;
Type of Paper: Plenary
Id Paper: 274
Topic: 2
Abstract:
Ores are heterogeneous materials from which metals are extracted. The heterogeneous nature of the ores makes extraction modeling challenging. New methodologies that characterize the relationship between valuable mineral grains and host rocks as well as the effect of comminution on that relationship facilitate improved modeling of leaching of crushed and ground ores in heap and tank leaching. These methodologies can be combined with additional techniques to account for heap leaching application scenarios that involve curing, point source solution application, and stacked ore compressibility in order to provide improved insights and accuracy in heap leach modeling. This presentation will describe the associated methodologies and techniques as well as provide a comparison of modeling and experimental results.