“…Given the increasingly strict environmental protection regulations with regard to sustainable development and certain disadvantages of inorganic acids present in the leaching process, organic acids such as citric, acetic and oxalic acids can be advantageous leaching agents. However, weak acidity is characteristic of organic acids, and their low boiling temperatures and instability restrict their industrial applications [2,[16][17][18]. Numerous studies on the extraction of copper from oxidized copper minerals using alkaline media, such as ammonia, ammonia/ammonium carbonate, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, -159 -and ammonium nitrate, have been conducted [19][20][21].…”