Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of papers is from the Engineering Foundation's Conference on In Situ Recovery of Minerals held in Santa Barbara, California, October 25-30, 1992. The book provides a comprehensive update on the current level of understanding and applications of this method for solution mining.;The coverage includes - environmental and permitting issues; in situ leaching chemistry; the Santa Curz in-situ copper mining research project; monitoring technologies; physical characteristics and parameters; recovery from rubblized zones; economics and evaluations of deposits.
