CHZ 506E - Solution Mining

Course Objectives

1. The purpose of this course is to teach students the basic information on solution mining,
2. To bring out the problems that may occur during the application of solution mining and their solutions in detail,
3. To evaluate and study the project of solution mining.

Course Description

Definition and importance of solution mining, reserve and grade relation, preparation works, leaching processes and reagents, heap and dump leaching, in-situ leaching, percolation leaching, applications (gold, silver, copper, uranium, salt, potassium, trona, sulfur, and coal), the effect of micro-organisms on solution mining, beneficiation and destruction of solutions produced in solution mining.