Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy: New Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2024) | Viewed by 3758
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ionic liquids; hydrometallurgy; green processes
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Interests: leaching; hydrometallurgy; pyrometallurgy; flotation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mineral and extractive metallurgical processes play a crucial role in obtaining raw materials essential for advancing new technologies, which have significant socioeconomic and environmental impacts globally. In some countries, the mining sector is vital to their economic development. For instance, copper mining in Chile is the primary economic activity, directly contributing 10% to the country's gross domestic product and having widespread indirect effects on the broader economy. However, in recent years, the mining industry has faced a wide array of challenges:
- Ores having progressively lower grades for metal mines;
- Excessive long-term environmental liabilities in the form of tailings and waste rock piles;
- Lack of available processing water.
These challenges are prompting technological innovations aimed at enhancing and optimizing metal recovery from both conventional and emerging processes. This includes the reuse and recycling of industrial streams, which can often be both economically and environmentally beneficial, an overall reduction in water consumption, and the integration of renewable energy generation throughout mining operations.
In this Special Issue, we welcome both review articles and original research focused on chemical and metallurgical processes, as well as related environmental studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Extractive metallurgical processes;
- Environmental remediation and reclamation efforts, including treatment and utilization of mineral waste streams;
- Impacts of technological innovation on the mineral value chain.
Dr. Jonathan Castillo
Dr. Norman Toro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrometallurgy
- leaching
- mineral processing
- flotation
- rheology
- simulation
- statistics
- ionic liquids
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