“…In the literature, there are several studies related to lateritic nickel leaching in different solutions using high pressure or atmospheric pressure (agitation or heap leaching). The solutions used in these studies can be given as sulphuric acid (Georgiou and Papangelakis, 1998;Agacayak and Zedef, 2012;Luo et al, 2010;Stopic et al, 2002;Ayanda et al, 2011;Rubisov et al, 2000;Agatzini-Leonardou and Zafiratos, 2004;McDonald and Whittington, 2008a;Mohammadreza et al, 2014), hydrochloric acid (Ayanda et al, 2011;Park and Nam, 2008;Agacayak et al, 2011;Guo et al, 2015;McDonald and Whittington, 2008b;Li et al, 2012), nitric acid (Agacayak and Zedef, 2013;Ayanda et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2013), ammonia (Zhai et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2010;Zuniga et al, 2010), citric acid, oxalic acid and acetic acid (Sahu et al, 2011;Behera et al, 2010;Sukla and Panchanadikar, 1993;Kursunoglu and Kaya, 2015). In the present work, to investigate the effects of parameters such as stirring speed, sulphuric acid concentration, sodium fluoride concentration and temperature on the leaching of nickel from a limonitic laterite ore and to describe dissolution kinetics of nickel was aimed.…”