Courses Handbook 2010

11974 (v.4) Hydrometallurgy 352


Area: Department of Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 11972 (v.3) Metallurgical Thermodynamics 351 or any previous version
OR
11971 (v.3) Metallurgical Chemistry 351 or any previous version
Syllabus: Chemical, thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of leaching, separation, extraction and recovery of metals. Oxidative and non-oxidative leaching of minerals, purification and recovery of metals by precipitation, ion exchange and solvent extraction and the recovery of metals by reduction and electrowinning. The design of solvent extraction, ion exchange and leaching circuits.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030303 Mining Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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