Hydrometallurgy ’94

Organizing committee and list of sponsors. Foreword. List of contributors. Hydrometallurgy and Sustainable Development: EU R&D activity and strategy for sustainable development in the mineral industries; A. Adjemian. Hydrometallurgy - an environmentally sustainable technology? M.T. Anthony, D. S. Flett. Environmental impact of increasing production of gold from hydrothermal resources; A.K. Haines. In-situ leaching recovery of copper: what's next? J.B. Hiskey. Hydrometallurgical processing of refinery slimes at Phelps Dodge: theory to practice; J.E. Hoffmann, B. Wesstrom. Materials production and the environment; R.C. Villas Bôas. Fundamentals: Reaction of galena in ferric sulphate-sulphuric acid media; J.E. Dutrizac, T.T. Chen. Multicomponent equilibrium calculations in process design: study of some acid digester reactors; P. Koukkari, H. Sippola, A. Sundquist. Hematite solubility in sulphate process solutions; V.G. Papangelakis, B.C. Blakey, H. Liao. Hydrothermal precipitation from aqueous solutions containing iron(III), arsenate and sulphate; P.M. Swash, A.J. Monhemius. Leaching: Heap leaching of poor nickel laterites by sulphuric acid at ambient temperature; S. Agatzini-Leonardou, D. Dimaki. Mechano-chemical treatment of tetrahedrite as a new non-polluting method of metals recovery; P. Baláz, et al. Non-traditional methods of treating high-silicon ores containing rare elements; S.V. Chizhevskaya, et al. Scope and limitations for application of selectivity in oxidation potential-controlled leaching of metal sulphides; N.L. Piret, J.F. Castle. Control of arsenic and selenium during nickel matte leaching; J.J. Robinson, K. Barbetti, R.P. Das. Electrochemical study of oxidative dissolution of syntheticviolarite in aqueous media; T.E. Wamer, N.M. Rice, N. Taylor. Bioprocessing: Stability of arsenical bacterial oxidation products; K. Adam, et al. Removal of iron from kaolin and quartz: dissolution with organic adds; C.F. Bonney. Bioreduction of gold on algae and with amtino acids; A.R. Gee, A.W.L. Dudeney. Metal speciation in bioleach solutions during bacterial dissolution of a complex mineral sulphide concentrate; M.A. Jordan, C.V. Phillips, D.W. Barr. Bacterial oxidation of an auriferous arsenical concentrate; C. Komnitsas, F.D. Pooley. Oxidation of arsenopyrite in bacterial ferric solutions; C. Komnitsas, F.D. Pooley. Effect of silver and bismuth on bioleaching of copper sulphide concentrates with thermophilic microorganisms; J.L. Mier, et al. Dissolved iron equilibrium in bacterial leaching systems; J.V. Wiertz, I. Godoy Ríos, B. Escobar Miguel. Influence of substrate polarization on activity of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in bioleaching; J.V. Wiertz, et al. Gold: Pretreatment by electrolytic or oxidative leaching for recovery of gold and silver from refractory sulphide concentrates; L.M. Abrantes, M.C. Costa, A.P. Paiva. Iodide-thiocynate leaching system for gold; O. Barbosa-Filho, A.J. Monhemius. Leaching and recovery of gold by use of acidothioureation on copper-mine wastes: laboratory and pilot-plant tests and process modelling; P.F. Kavanagh, et al. PRISMA - a hydrometallurgical process simulator: application in gold extraction from refractory pyrites; A. Kontopoulos, et al. Interrelationship between lixiviants and galvanic interaction during dissolution of gold; L. Lorenzen, J.S.J. van Deventer, M.T. van Meersbergen. Comparative performance of porous adsorbents in presence of gold cyan