Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development

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Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development – Sung, Kao & Chen (eds)

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Comprehensive evaluation indexes of the heap leaching

Yueping Yang

School of Nuclear Resources Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

ABSTRACT: The comprehensive evaluation of the heap leaching which consists by mining process

and leaching process is an extremely complex and highly integrated problem. The evaluation should take

a series of indexes, which are independent, mutual connection and mutual restriction of each other. The

system consists of five primary indicators: the ore quality, the production technology, the environmental

benefits, the static economic and the dynamic economic ...