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As demand for molybdenum soars, greater effort is being made to find economical means of extracting the metal from oxidized ores bodies. Here is one such research effort directed toward the deposit at Questa, New Mexico.
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Bhappu, R.B., Reynolds, D.H. & Roman, R.J. Molybdenum recovery from sulfide and oxide ores. JOM 17, 1199–1205 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03378390
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