Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, CNR, Area della Ricerca di Roma RM 1—Montelibretti—Via Salaria Km 29,300, Monterotondo, 00015 Roma, Italy
Leaching is a primary extractive operation in hydrometallurgical processing, by which a metal of interest is transferred from naturally-occurring minerals into an aqueous solution [...]