- Title:
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Caustic Soda
- Date:
- December 2008
- Organisations
- FESA
- Authors:
- Higgins, Leith
- Location:
- Western Australia, WA, Australia
Overview
In Western Australia, caustic soda is used widely in industry for pH adjustment and carbon stripping in extracting gold from ore, in the separation of rare earth metals taken from mineral sands, and in the digestion of bauxite ore to separate alumina ready to be refined into aluminium. Includes uses, dangerous goods, reactivity hazards and incidents.
