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THE only living member of the original Tainton technical staff that operated the Martinez electrolytic-zinc plant and proved the commercial soundness of high acid-high current density deposition of zinc tells of the tribulations encountered in that early work. It is then shown that copper leaching may well have a great deal in common with zinc hydrometallurgy and that several proven metallurgical processes could be integrated into complete operations adaptable to a wide variety of copper mine conditions.
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Keyes, H.E. Can leaching aid the copper mines?. JOM 1, 29–32 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398405
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398405