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Chalcopyrite: Bioleaching Versus Pressure Hydrometallurgy, Fathi Habashi
Chalcopyrite: Bioleaching Versus Pressure Hydrometallurgy, Fathi Habashi
Fathi Habashi
While bioleaching of pyrite concentrates has been successfully used in industry to liberate gold from the sulfide matrix for subsequent cyanidation, the same technology cannot be recommended for leaching chalcopyrite concentrates for copper recovery. It will be shown to be uneconomical and cannot compete with pressure leaching technology.