Sustainable Urban Mining of Precious Metals - Sadia Ilyas

Sustainable Urban Mining of Precious Metals

By: Sadia Ilyas (Editor), Hyunjung Kim (Editor), Rajiv Ranjan Srivastava (Editor)

Paperback | 4 October 2024

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The rapid revolution in modern industry has led to a significant increase in waste at the end of the product lifecycle. It is essential to close the loop, secure resources, and join up the circular economy. This book provides a detailed review of extraction techniques for urban mining of precious metals including gold, silver, and the platinum group. The merits and demerits of various extraction methods are highlighted, with possible suggestions for improvements. The feasibility of hybrid extraction techniques, as well as the sustainability and environmental impact of every process, is explored.

  • Offers a comprehensive review of different techniques used in recycling technology for urban mining of precious metals
  • Describes the concept of urban mining and its correlation with circular economy
  • Discusses feasibility of precious metal extraction and urban mines scope and their potential
  • Explains the subject in-context of sustainability while describing chemistry fundamentals and industrial practices
  • Provides technical flow sheets for urban mining of precious metals with diversity of lixiviant

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in extractive metallurgy, hydrometallurgy, chemical engineering, chemistry, and environmental engineering.

Industry Reviews

Overall, it is well presented and detailed with process flowcharts and useful data. However, the importance of this book - aside from addressing the environmental and sustainability imperative - lies in presenting the opportunities that urban mining offers, which it suggests some countries are already exploiting, and how it can be deployed with readily available and established technology, as well as the need for related industries to operate within legal frameworks. MATERIALS WORLD MAGAZINE, July/August 2022

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