Leaching is an industrial mining process used to extract precious metals, copper, uranium, and other compounds from ore using a series of chemical reactions that absorb specific minerals and re-separate them after their division from other earth materials. It is easily confused with Leech, any bloodsucking or carnivorous aquatic or terrestrial worm of the class Hirudinea, or a person who clings to another for personal gain and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the other's resources; parasite./

/Leach. Isotonic saline solution on 100€. Curatorial Part de Deux, Berlin, 2022/