An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties
Reasons for the variable acid leaching performance of the nickel laterite ore samples from Western Australia were investigated using numerous microstructural analytical techniques. Cementation of goethite-silica/silicate was identified as the main factor inhibiting acid leaching. Another major outco...
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Curtin University
2013
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| author | Wang, Xiaodong |
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| description | Reasons for the variable acid leaching performance of the nickel laterite ore samples from Western Australia were investigated using numerous microstructural analytical techniques. Cementation of goethite-silica/silicate was identified as the main factor inhibiting acid leaching. Another major outcome of the research was significant improvement of quantitative phase analysis of turbostratically disordered nontronite by developing phase models with peak shape descriptions in X-ray diffraction analysis. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-23952017-02-20T06:38:34Z An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties Wang, Xiaodong Reasons for the variable acid leaching performance of the nickel laterite ore samples from Western Australia were investigated using numerous microstructural analytical techniques. Cementation of goethite-silica/silicate was identified as the main factor inhibiting acid leaching. Another major outcome of the research was significant improvement of quantitative phase analysis of turbostratically disordered nontronite by developing phase models with peak shape descriptions in X-ray diffraction analysis. 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2395 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wang, Xiaodong An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| title | An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| title_full | An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| title_fullStr | An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| title_full_unstemmed | An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| title_short | An investigation of the relationship between Western Australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| title_sort | investigation of the relationship between western australian nickel laterites’ leaching performance and their mineralogical properties |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2395 |