Precious metals are widely applied in many industry fields due to their excellent corrosion
resistance, good electrical conductivity and high catalytic activity. However, the reserves of …

Metal-bearing solid wastes are an important secondary source of metals. Compared to
mining from ores, the recovery of metals, especially precious metals from rich secondary …

Demand for platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd) and rhodium (Rh) as parts of platinum group
metals (PGMs) has continued to increase as a consequence of increase in their …

In the last decades, a worldwide investment in the recovery or substitution of platinum group
metals (PGMs) has been financed. PGMs have been classified as critical raw materials …

Platinum is one of the precious metals with many applications, including in catalysis,
electronic devices and jewelry. However, its limited resources are becoming depleted. To …

Phytomining of noble metals (NMs) offers a promising possibility of metal extraction at sites
where traditional mining activities or recovering NMs from low-grade minerals are not …

Demand for the 3 PGMs-platinum, palladium and rhodium has been steadily increasing,
largely as a result of the growing use of the metals in autocatalytic converters. Due to the …

Scattered and precious metals (SPMs: Se, Te, Au, Ag, Pt, and Pd) play an irreplaceable role
in advanced methods and materials, and their global consumption has been growing in …

The car industry is one of the technological applications which more platinum-group metals
(PGM) employs. Therefore, the recovery of the PGMs from the car catalytic converters could …

Abstract Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), often with associated gold, have very few
occurrences where they are present in an ore deposit at economically extractable levels …