Abstract:
Discloses a hydrometallurgical process and system for the recovery of precious metals; specifically palladium, rhodium, and platinum metals, at high purity and with limited waste and environmental fouling.
Abstract:
Discloses a hydrometallurgical process and system for the recovery of precious metals; specifically palladium, rhodium, and platinum metals, at high purity and with limited waste and environmental fouling.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for extracting base and precious metals, all contained in refractory minerals, using aqueous media. The aim is to replace the current “flotation/smelting”-method for extracting minerals in Chilean and global mining or classical leaching with a method comprising a simple and robust pre-treatment that leads to solubilisation of the refractory matrices thereof. The method consists of mixing the mineral (Cu2S, CuS,CuFeS2, Cu5FeS4, FeS2, FeAsS.NiS, (Ni,Fe)xSy), ground to an appropriate size (2.5 centimetres), with a specific dose of solid reagent in a rotary agglomeration drum and then adding slightly acidified water to obtain a defined water content (5-8%) depending on the type of gangue contained in the metal-containing solid, thereby forming an agglomerate that will form a heap, which is subsequently allowed to stand for a period of several days (20-60 days), during which the conditions required to transform the refractory matrix into a highly soluble solid will be generated. Finally, appropriately regulated irrigation is applied, thus resulting in extraction of the metal by simple aqueous washing. In essence, the method achieves maximum transformation of the original refractory mineral into a highly soluble solid salt during a step prior to the conventional leaching process. Thus, the metal will be contained in a solid with a much higher solubility than the original matrix, therefore the dissolution thereof will be faster, more efficient and require a minimal use of consumables and reagents.
Abstract:
A method and a system for gold and silver recovery from a pregnant solution resulting from gold extraction from an ore using halogen, the method comprising lowering the oxidation reduction potential of the pregnant solution by mixing the pregnant solution with a reducer over the surface of a bed of silica, and flowing the mixture through the bed of silica. The system comprises a bed of silica, a feeder controlling feeding of the pregnant solution with a reducer to direct a mixture of an ORP less than 550 mV to the surface of the bed of silica, and a collector receiving a barren solution from the bed of silica after flowing of the mixture therethrough.
Abstract:
A method for recovery of platinum group metals from a spent catalyst is described. The method includes crushing the spent catalyst to obtain a catalyst particulate material including particles having a predetermined grain size. The method includes subjecting the catalyst particulate material to a chlorinating treatment in the reaction zone at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time period by putting the catalyst particulate material in contact with the chlorine containing gas. The method also includes applying an electromagnetic field to the chlorine-containing gas in the reaction zone to provide ionization of chlorine; thereby to cause a chemical reaction between platinum group metals and chlorine ions and provide a volatile platinum group metal-containing chloride product in the reaction zone. Following this, the volatile platinum group metal-containing chloride product is cooled to convert the product into solid phase platinum group metal-containing materials.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for preparing a gold-containing solution by chloride leaching from gold-bearing raw materials. A further object of the invention is to provide a method for recovering gold and optionally silver from the prepared gold-containing solution. The invention relates also to a process arrangement for recovering gold and optionally silver.
Abstract:
This invention describes a hydrometallurgical process for the recovery and separation of valuable elements, in particular gold and silver, from a feed material comprising a refractory, intractable or otherwise poorly responding to conventional treatment routes ores, concentrates and other materials. In particular, the process is a process integrated into one or more existing value element extraction processes.
Abstract:
A method for recovering ruthenium from a spent ruthenium-based catalyst carried on aluminum oxide includes: drying, calcining, and cooling a spent catalyst; grinding the spent catalyst into black powder; placing the black powder in a fluidized bed reactor, purging the reactor with hydrogen and heating the black powder to obtain ruthenium metal, then heating the black powder in a mixed atmosphere of oxygen and ozone to obtain RuO4 gas; absorbing the RuO4 gas with a sufficient amount of hydrochloric acid to obtain a H3RuCl6 solution; adding an excess oxidant to the H3RuCl6 solution to oxidize the H3RuCl6 into H2RuCl6; adding excess NH4Cl to the H2RuCl6 and then filtering, and washing the filter cake to obtain solid (NH4)2RuCl6; and reducing the solid (NH4)2RuCl6 by hydrogen to obtain ruthenium metal.
Abstract:
A method for recovering cobalt, ruthenium, and aluminum from spent Co—Ru/Al2O3 catalyst. First, Co—Ru/Al2O3 spent catalyst is subjected to hydrocarbon removal, reaction with hydrogen, and alkali fusion to obtain a slag. The slag is subjected to acid leaching, precipitation of cobalt with oxalic acid or ammonium oxalate, reduction of cobalt oxalate, and dissolution of cobalt metal with nitric acid to obtain Co(NO3)2.6H2O. The effluent of acid leaching is subjected to reaction with ethanol, filtration to obtain a filtrate and residue, dissolution of the residue with concentrated hydrochloric acid, and vacuum distillation to obtain β-RuCl3.xH2O. Aluminum hydroxide is prepared from the filtrate through carbonation and calcination. The cobalt yield is ≧97%; the ruthenium yield is ≧95%, and the aluminum yield is ≧92%.
Abstract:
The invention relates to analytical chemistry and technology for processing clay-salt waste (slurries) of potassium-processing factories. The inventive method is based on the analysis of the totality of tested material and consists in annealing the nanoparticles of precious metal (Au, Pt, Pd) organic compounds at a temperature ranging from 600 to 950° C. in the presence of a chloride agent in the form of potassium chlorides (KCl) or sodium chlorides (NaCl) and in producing the acid-soluble compounds of said metals. The sample is exposed to the entire cycle of technological conversion: 1) chloridising roasting; 2) leaching with weak mineral acid solutions; 3) sorption of precious metal compounds on the industrial sorbent AM-2B 4 from the solution obtained after leaching and 4) desorption. A tradeable solution obtained at the end of said cycle is analysed for precious metal content. Said invention makes it possible to use the test portion which is required for a given test stage as opposed to non-representative test portions of 3-30 g which are used for conventional analytical methods and to exclude the ‘misses’ of the tested material in the analysis.