Recent Trends in Extractive Metallurgy

Dear Colleagues,

Metal extraction processes must continuously improve, innovate and adapt to new technologies (information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning) and environmental and sustainability challenges while maintaining productivity and profitability.

However, deposits are becoming more complex (and the grades of values are scarcer), requiring new interdisciplinary approaches that enable extraction with the least environmental impact, greater energy efficiency and lowest cost. This represents areas of opportunity where research (both fundamental and technological) towards innovation and technological development of extractive metallurgy continue to be the base for transformation in current and future processes.

In this context, this Special Issue invites the scientific and technological community to present papers and studies on the different areas and disciplines of extractive metallurgy (hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, and electrometallurgy) and those related to it, such as mineral processing (gravimetric concentration, magnetic, and flotation). The application of extractive metallurgy operations and processes for the values recovery, recycling, reduction and treatment of mining and metallurgical wastes (and urban wastes, such as electronic scrap) is also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Raul Carrillo Pedroza
Prof. Dr. Jesús Leobardo Valenzuela-García
Prof. Dr. Eleazar Salinas-Rodríguez
Guest Editors

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