This book offers a wealth of information on the rapidly expanding field of solution mining, the extraction of materials from the earth by leaching and fluid recovery. Solution Mining: Leaching and Fluid Recovery of Materials is an introductory text for students and professional engineers that is comprehensive and emphasizes current practice and theory. Percolation leaching of fragmented ground is included, as well as true and modified in situ leaching. Solution mining of gold, copper and uranium ores, several salts extracted from evaporites and brines, and sulfur are covered. Mineral leaching chemistry and kinetics, hydrology (including flow equations for various wellfields and other fluid recovery systems), environmental containment and solution mining simulation models are also discussed.





