Innovations in Mineral and Metallurgical Extraction: Pathways to Industrial Implementation
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 1068
Editors
Interests: technospheric mining; resources recycling; extractive metallurgy; processing of critical and strategic minerals; waste treatment and environmental remediation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainable metallurgy; critical minerals and materials recovery
Interests: rare earth and critical minerals extraction; ferrous metallurgy; surface coatings and modification
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global transition toward low-carbon technologies has placed unprecedented demand on mineral and metallurgical supply chains. At the same time, increasing environmental, social, and regulatory pressures require the minerals and metals industry to adopt sustainable and efficient processing and extraction methods. In this context, innovations in mineral and metallurgical extraction are central to bridging the gap between laboratory-scale research and large-scale industrial implementation.
This Special Issue, “Innovations in Mineral and Metallurgical Extraction: Pathways to Industrial Implementation”, aims to present emerging research that advances the development and optimization of novel extraction technologies. Emphasis is placed on translational research that integrates fundamental science with pilot-scale and industrial applications, enabling practical solutions for modern resource challenges.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles that explore innovative approaches across the minerals value chain, including primary extraction, secondary resource utilization, process intensification, digitalisation, and environmental management. Interdisciplinary studies combining mineral processing, pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, materials science, and environmental engineering are particularly welcomed, as they provide comprehensive insights into scalable and sustainable metallurgical solutions.
Dr. Richard Alorro
Dr. Yasushi Sasaki
Dr. Jonah Gamutan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineral processing
- extractive metallurgy
- hydrometallurgy
- pyrometallurgy
- critical minerals
- materials science
- technospheric mining
- decarbonisation
- electrometallurgy
- flotation and physical separation
- leaching technologies
- solvent extraction and ion exchange
- biohydrometallurgy
- process intensification
- process modelling and simulation
- pilot-scale validation
- technology scale-up
- industrial implementation
- secondary resource processing
- recycling and circular economy
- tailings reprocessing
- energy-efficient processing
- decarbonisation in metallurgy
- sustainable extraction
- automation and digitalisation in mining
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