Cementation is defined as the precipitation of a noble metal when it comes into contact with a less noble one. Since Roman times, this process has been applied in many metallurgical industries for contact plating, recovering valuable metals from waste solutions etc. However it has never been used before for painting! Stelios (ESR 5), in his research towards the selective ...

Copper is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity and because of these properties, it is the undisputed material of choice for conducting electricity. The quality of the copper should be very good for electrical applications. Bad quality dramatically changes the electrical conductivity and workability. The following qualities are important for copper; Chemical property: ...

From the 9th to 12th October 2017, I participated in a very interesting “Technology tour” of southern Poland, organized by Prometia. PROMETIA is an international non-profit association, which promotes innovation and collaboration in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy for mining and recycling of raw materials. Its member organizations consist of industries, small and medium-sized enterprises, research institutes and number of ...

WP4 is an integrative WP, which interacts closely with WP1–3 and provides a truly interdisciplinary, systems approach. There are 2 ESRs in WP4, ESR14 and ESR15. Two main elements are targeted: advanced characterization and integrated assessment. ESR14 will perform advanced characterization of the industrial-process residues to find out which mineral phases the metals occur, how these phases are distributed throughout ...

Hello all, We are the researchers of Work Package 3 (WP3) of the SOCRATES project working on ‘Residual matrix valorization’. In today’s business-as-usual setting, a low-grade, solid or slurry, industrial-process residue remains after the recovery of the valuable metals. This solid residue is normally stored in tailing ponds, landfilled or, at best, the coarse fractions are used as an additive ...

Author: Thupten Palden Recently I had the privilege to attend the ERES 2017 conference on European Rare Earth Resources in Santorini, Greece from the 28th to 31st of May 2017. The conference was about Rare Earth Elements (REE), which consists of the fifteen lanthanides, scandium and yttrium. About 250 people attended the conference. The attendees were policy makers from European commission, professors from ...