Talk:Mineral processing

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[edit] No hydrometallurgy here please

SX-EW should not be in a mineral processing article. That's hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy! Can someone make sure that material is covered properly under another article and/or move the information please? BSMet94 05:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I 86-ed the bit about SX-EW. First of all, it talked a lot about heap leaching, which is neither SX or EW, and it's hydrometallurgy anyway, not mineral processing. Secondly, it's covered in hydrometallurgy. Expand on it there, and/or consider a more detailed main article on solvent extraction elsewhere. The term SX-EW is kinda silly anyway. They need to be covered separately, since a lot of EW processes exist that have no prior SX. And one is not dependent on the other. BSMet94 05:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)