Appliion of bioleaching to copper mining in Chile
Early appliion of bioleaching to copper mining centred in its recovery from dumps (Gentina and Acevedo, 1985; Acevedo, 2002). This is a low technology process and renders low productivities and recoveries. Nevertheless, dump bioleaching is economical, mainly because it recovers copper otherwise wasted with very modest investment and operation costs. A step in the direction of using a .
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