Methods of recovering minerals from hydrocarbonaceous material using a constructed infrastructure and associated systems

摘要

A method of recovering minerals from hydro carbonaceous materials can include forming a constructed permeability control infrastructure (100). This constructed infrastructure (100) defines a substantially encapsulated volume. A comminuted hydro carbonaceous material can be introduced into the control infrastructure to form a permeable body (120) of hydro carbonaceous material. The permeable body (120) can be contacted with an agent sufficient to remove minerals therefrom. The agent is typically a solution containing a solvent, leachant, chelating agent and the like via which minerals can be removed having value, toxic minerals, radioactive minerals and the like.