Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- Session Editors and Chairs -- PLENARY SESSIONS -- Metallurgical Reflections -- Minerals Biotechnology: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges -- Some Challenges in the Design and Operations of Smart and Safe Metallurgical Plants -- Plant Start-Ups, Ramp-Ups, and Deficiencies -- Energy Efficiency and Copper Hydrometallurgy -- ENVIRONMENTAL HYDROMETALLURGY -- Acid Rock Drainage -- Prevention of ARD-Gaining a Social License to Mine -- Sullivan Mine Fatalities Incident: Initial Technical Investigations and Findings -- Surface Water Characterization of the Berkeley Pitlake -- ARD Remediation by Slag Addition: Dual Ecosystem Enhancement -- Removal of Phosphorus from Wastewater Using Ferroxysorb Sorption Media Produced from AMD Sludge -- Resource Recovery from Flooded Underground Mines -- Waste Water and Resource Recovery -- Review of Operations of the Biosulfphide® Process Plant at the Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona -- Biological Aspects of Arsenic Speciation and Remediation -- Designing a Biochemical Reactor for Selenium and Thallium Removal, from Bench Scale Testing Through Pilot Construction -- New Evidences for the Role of Precipitation and Adsorption During Fe(III)-As(V) Coprecipitation -- Removal of Selenium Oxyanions from Industrial Scrubber Waters Utilizing Elemental Iron -- Removal of Cadmium, Copper, Nickel, and Zinc From Aqueous Solution by Adsorption on Ferrihydrite and Long-Term Storage Stability of the Metal Loaded Product -- A Magnetic-Field Reactor for Metal Removal from Dilute Wastewater Streams -- Waste Treatment and Minimization -- Boston Mine: Mercury Cleanup at an Abandoned Hydraulic Gold Mine -- An Electrochemical Reactor for the Recovery of Palladium from an Industrial Waste Stream.

Acid Leaching of the Fine Fraction of the AOD-L Sludge Generated by the Stainless Steelmaking Process in Order to Recover Chromium, Nickel and Iron -- Study of the Effective Parameters to Transport of Hazardous Waste from Zinc Leaching Plant to Environment -- Dissolution Kinetics of Zinc from Zinc Plants Residue -- Ion-Exchange of Copper from the Chloride Wash Water of Electronic Industry -- Hydrometallurgical Recycling of the Semiconductor Material from Photovoltaic Materials: Part 1 -- RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS -- Adsorption, Ion Exchange, and Solvent Extraction -- Hydrometallurgical Recycling of the Semiconductor Material from Photovoltaic Materials: Part 2 -- Electrostatic Agitation in Hydrometallurgical Solvent Extraction -- Selective Removal Nickel from Cadmium- and Zinc-Rich Sulphate Electrolyte in the Zinc Industry -- Separation of Nickel from Magnesium in a Sulfate Solution Using Versatic-10 -- HW Process Technologies' Engineered Membrane Separation® (EMS®) Systems for Hydrometallurgical Applications -- Selective Removal of Iron from Acidic Solutions Using Styrene Based Ion Exchange Resins -- Cuprous Cyanide Adsorption on Activated Carbon: Pretreatment for Gold Take-Up from Thiosulfate Solutions -- Coordination Analysis of Silica-Polyamine Composites Using FTIR -- Bicarbonate Elution of Uranium -- The Influence of Competitive Species on Uranium Recovery Using Resin and Solvent Extraction Techniques -- Plant Practices and Innovations -- Optimization of Nonferrous Metals Recovery from Sea Nodules in a Hydrometallurgical Circuit Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms -- Wireless Communications Networks Improve Mining Equipment Availability -- Optimizing Metallurgical Performance at ASARCO Silver Bell Mining LLC -- Using Control/Response Plans to Minimize Plant Upsets and Support ISO Certifications.

Increasing Confidence with Analytical Measurements: Bridging the Gap Between Process Control Systems and Business Management Systems -- Recovery Improvement Strategies at Konkola Copper Mines PLC, Nchanga Tailings Leach Plant -- Process Development and Modeling -- Antimony, Arsenic, Gold, Mercury and Tin Separation, Recovery and Fixation by Alkaline Sulfide Hydrometallurgy -- Commissioning UHC: A Vale Copper Refi nery Based on CESL Technology -- Development of a Mass Balance Model for the Xstrata Copper Kidd Refinery -- Improving Polymetallic Ores Beneficiation by Means of the Primalead Process -- Treatment of Chingola Refractory Ores -- Flowsheet Development for Agnico Eagle's Refractory Gold Kittila Project in Finland -- Future Role of Hydrometallurgy -- Trends in Non-Ferrous Hydrometallurgy-Solutions and Challenges -- Roasting-The Neglected Option -- A Roasting-Leaching Demonstration Plant for Removal of Phosphorus from Iron Ore -- Treatment of Nkana Oxcap Ores by Agitation Leach SX-EW Process Route at Mopani Copper Mines PLC's in Zambia -- Some Aspects of the Future of Magnesium -- MLA: Current Projects at the Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing -- Biotechnology -- Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans and Leptospirillum Ferriphilum Adhere to Different Sites on the Surface of Pyrite -- The Application of Geobiotics, LLC's GEOCOAT® Technology to the Bacterial Oxidation of a Refractory Arsenopyrite Gold Concentrate -- Biooxidation Kinetics of Leptospirillum Ferriphilum Under Heap Bioleach Conditions -- Use of Real-Time PCR Assays to Characterize and Monitor Acidophilic Microbe Populations -- New Developments in Indirect Bioleaching of Zinc and Lead Sulfi de Concentrates -- Microbial Pre-Treatment of Double Refractory Gold Ores -- BASE AND PRECIOUS METALS -- Nickel.

Galvanic Interactions During the Bioleaching of Mixed Nickel Sulphides -- Thermochemical Aspects of the Fe, Ni & Co-NH3-H2O Systems Relevant to the Caron Process -- Development of a Model for the Assessment of Technical and Economic Parameters Affecting Process Selection to Treat Nickel Laterite Ores -- Atmospheric Leach Process for Nickel Laterite Ores -- Leaching Nickel and Nickel Sulfi des in Ammonia/Ammonium Carbonate Solutions -- Chemical Modelling of MgSO4 Solubility in Atmospheric Chloride Leaching of Laterites -- New Matte Leaching Developments at Anglo Platinum's Base Metal Refinery -- Rheology of Nickel Laterite Slurries -- Electrometallurgy -- The Effects of Periodic Open-Circuit on the Corrosion of Lead Alloy Anodes in Sulfuric Acid Electrolytes Containing Manganese -- The Influence and Benefits of an Upstream Solvent-Extraction Circuit on the Electrowinning of Zinc in Sulfate Media: The Skorpion Zinc Process -- The Deportment of Arsenic in Copper Electrorefi ning Circuits -- Evaluation of Ferric Ion Reductants in Sulfate Based Copper Electrowinning Electrolyte -- The Effect of Tangential or Perpendicular Inlet Flow on the Mass Transfer in an Annular Electrochemical Cell -- Effects of Additives on Copper Electrodeposit Roughness in Chloride Media -- Infl uence of Different Additivies on Current Effi ciency of Zn(II) Electrodeposition on Aluminum in Sulfuric Acid Medium -- Copper -- Synergism in the Oxidation of Covellite and Pyrite by Iron(III) and Copper(II) Ions in Chloride Solutions -- Leaching of Chalcopyrite with Sodium Hypochlorite -- Electrochemical Characterization of the Solid Products Formed in the Electro-Assisted Reduction of Chalcopyrite -- A Qualitative Study on the Nature of Electroassisted Chalcopyrite Reduction on Different Electrode Materials.

Reagent Optimisation at Konkola Copper Mines PLC, Nchanga Tailing Leach Plant, Chingola, Zambia -- The Parker Copper Process-A New Approach Ahead of Its Time -- Cyanide -- Microtomography Based Identification of the Mechanisms of Gold Adsorption onto Activated Carbon Modelling -- Determination of the Leaching Parameters for a Refractory Gold Ore Containing Aurostite and Antimony Minerals: Part II-AD Zone -- Gold Heap Process Optimization Using a Comprehensive Model -- The HWPT Engineered Membrane Separation® (EMS®) Method for the Cyanide Treatment of Copper-Gold Ore -- Cyanide Management Through Proper Measurement -- Treatment of the Carmacks Copper-Gold Ore by Acid Leaching and Cyanide Leaching with SART Recovery of Copper and Cyanide from Barren Cyanide Solution -- Does Pre-Oxidation or Lead(II) Addition Reduce the Impact of Iron Sulfides in Cyanidation? -- Thiosulfate -- Effect of Lead Ion and Minerals on Thiosulfate-Gold Leaching -- A Study of Pyrite Catalysed Oxidation of Thiosulfate -- Spectroelectrochemical Investigation of the Reaction Between Adsorbed Cuprous Cyanide and Gold Thiosulfate Ions at Activated Carbon Surfaces -- A Thiosulfate Process for Recovering Gold from Refractory Ores Which Encompasses Pressure Oxidation, Leaching, Resin Adsorption, Elution, and Electrowinning -- Beneficial Effect of Silver in Thiosulfate Leaching of Gold -- Electrochemical Study of Gold Cementation in Thiosulfate Solutions with an Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Nanobalance -- Pretreatment for Refractory Gold and Silver Minerals Before Leaching with Ammoniacal Copper Thiosulfate -- Other Lixivants -- Thiocyanate Process Chemistry for Gold Recovery -- Integrated Process for Precious Metal Extraction and Recovery Based on Electro-Oxidized Thiourea.

Effect of Copper, Iron, and Zinc Ions on the Selective Electrodeposition of Dorée from Acidic Thiourea Solutions.