Hydrometallurgy

The science and technology of hydrometallurgy and chemical processing continues to advance both at the laboratory level and in plant practice. In past decades, hydrometallurgy was rather limited in scope and received relatively little attention, being largely a laboratory curiosity. But curiosity is the mother of invention and with the dawn of the seventies this technology has come into its own; prompted to a large extent by the interest of society in protecting the environment.