Leaching is the loss or extraction of certain materials from a carrier into a liquid (usually, but not

always a solvent). and may refer to:

 Leaching (agriculture), the loss of water-soluble plant nutrients from the soil; or applying a
small amount of excess irrigation to avoid soil salinity
 Leaching (chemistry), the process of extracting substances from a solid by dissolving them in
a liquid
 Leaching (metallurgy), a widely used extractive metallurgy technique which converts metals
into soluble salts in aqueous media
 Dump leaching, an industrial process to extract metals from ore taken directly from the
mine and stacked on the leach pad without crushing
 Heap leaching, an industrial process to extract metals from ore which has been crushed
into small chunks
 Tank leaching, a hydro metallurgical method of extracting valuable material from ore
 In-situ leaching, a process of recovering minerals such as copper and uranium through
boreholes drilled into the deposit
 Leaching (pedology), the loss of mineral and organic solutes due to percolation from soil
 Bioleaching, the extraction of specific metals from their ores through the use of bacteria and
fungi