# Heap leaching

> industrial process to extract metals from ore which has been crushed into small chunks

**Wikidata**: [Q2031399](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2031399)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_leaching)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/heap-leaching


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)