Overview:
This proceedings volume from the fourth decennial Lead-Zinc symposium brings together plant operators, engineers, and researchers to discuss hydrometallurgical, electrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical aspects of these commercially important metals. Lead-Zinc 2000 emphasizes both the theory and practice of the extractive metallurgy of lead and zinc including benchmark technologies; advances in lead smelting; imperial smelting technologies; commercial and novel leaching processes; solution purification; lead electrorefining; zinc electrowinning; pyrometallurgical refining of lead and zinc; lead and zinc secondaries; process fundamentals and modeling; new processes and processing concepts.