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Sulfuric Acid Leaching Pad. Heap leaching process, sulfuric acid is used to dissolve copper from its ores at the Sierrita Mine, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Heap leaching is an industrial mining process to extract metals and other compounds from ore via chemical reactions that absorb specific minerals. The ore is crushed into small chunks and heaped on an leach pad where it can be irrigated with a leach solution to dissolve the valuable metals. Hard rock mining, Sierrita Mine, Pima County, Arizona, USA © march. 27 2009 Marco van Middelkoop/Aerophoto-Schiphol
Aerial photography library ID: 900460
Created: March 27, 2009
Aerial photography library size: 31.6 Mpixels (90.5 MB uncompressed) - 6496x4872 pixels (21.7x16.2 in / 55x41.2 cm at 300 ppi)
Aerial photography library keywords: Aerial, aerial photograph, aerial photography, aerial picture, Aerial view, Arizona, copper, environment, environmental concerns, from above, green valley, hard rock mining, heap leaching, metal, mining, open pit mine, open pit mining, ore, photograph, sulfuric acid, Sulfuric Acid Leaching Pads, USA, water issues
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