Students successfully completing this course will be equipped to make a judgement on:

1. Which leaching method could be applicable to a certain ore.

2. Which reagents can be used to dissolve the valuable metal(s) from a given ore.

3. How can a leaching method can be applied.

4. Which metal recovery techniques could be used for different pregnant leach solutions (PLS).

5. Reqiured reactor volumes and reagent quantities.

6. Flowsheet development.