Heap leach operations

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8986423
APP PUB NO 20120297928A1
SERIAL NO

13513551

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A method of heap leaching including forming a heap lift, installing a horizontal solution collection system between the heap layers including a horizontal tubing with a wireline data collection tool disposed therein, providing a heap leach model for modeling the heap leach operation including a solvent formulation and a irrigation setting, obtaining collected data from the wireline data collection tool while irrigating the heap lift, the collected data including in-situ material parameters of the heap layers and in-situ solution parameters of the solution flowing in the heap layers, modeling the heap leach operation using the collected data based on the heap leach model to generate a result, and adjusting the heap leach operation based on the result.

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WSP GLOBAL INC1600 RENE-LEVESQUE WEST 16TH FLOOR MONTREAL QC H3H 1P9

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Banas, Roland Tucson, US 2 46
Lang, Kent Denver, US 2 46
Mathieu, Gilles Meudon, FR 30 558
Will, Robert A Littleton, US 4 94

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