Design engineers have resorted to experience-based extrapolation from column-leaching data. Examples are Jansen and Taylor, (2002) (who advocate that the time for a given extraction in a column be multiplied by 1.25 to 1.50 and the final column extraction be multiplied by 0.95 to predict the heap performance); John, (2011) (who …
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