:: Acid Heap Leaching of the Caldag Nickel Deposit, Turkey

European Nickel (ENickel) is a UK-based nickel mining group which is developing the Caldag deposit, near Izmir in western Turkey.

The deposit will be mined by open pit methods, and acid heap leaching will be performed, to provide a lower cost nickel production route than conventional technologies.

The deposit and process are described in detail by Keith Irons, in the February 2006 issue of Materials World (pps. 28-30).