Walczak, Mary; Charlesworth, Paul; Williams, Doug; Zarzana, Linda

Should We Recommend Building a Copper Mine?

In this module students explore the science behind these questions and develop informed answers. Case teaching, collaborative laboratory work, and classroom group problems are used to teach redox reactions, acid/base reactions, solubility, and electrochemical equilibria. Teams of students perform their own analysis and hydro-metallurgical processing of an ore sample.