2. Oxidation of sulphides and arsenides in whole ore. 3. Leaching of whole ore, concentrates or oxide material. 4. Leaching of tailings from the pre concentration process. 5. Smelting. PROCESS SELECTION ALTERNATIVES Typically the process selection depends on the following criteria: 1.Operating cost 2.Capital cost (CAPEX) 3.Simplicity of the process
Process challenges with conventional processes (4) Recoverable base metals (sulfide ores) Heap Bioleach of low grade base metal sulfide deposits Low base metal extraction Elemental sulfur formation Passivates gold/silver Consumes cyanide to form thiocyanate Silica gels formation. Get Price; sketches tables UNIGE. 4.
together to form complex sulphide ores. Mineralogical characteristics of the major sulphide minerals in which principal base metals (copper, zinc, and lead) occur are discussed here. …
1. Introduction. Nickel is an important strategic metal produced at over 2 million tonnes annually [1].Approximately 60% of all Ni is consumed in the production of stainless steel [2, 3].Currently, Ni is primarily extracted from two types of ores: laterites and sulfides [[4], [5], [6], [7]].Although sulfide ores account for a smaller fraction of global Ni reserves, approximately …
23.3.2 Fluidized roasting process of sulfide ore. Most non-ferrous metals such as copper, lead, zinc, or cobalt deposit in the earth's crust naturally, mainly as sulfides (Ullmann, 1996b). Zinc sulfide ores are the feedstock used for 90% of zinc produced.
Simplified flow sheet of Rustenburg Base Metals Refinery (adapted from Hofirek & Halton [20]). ... base metals in sulphide ores containing PGMs. ... A typical example is the process used at ... به خواندن ادامه دهید
Sixteen process flowsheet variants combining conventional and proprietary unit process technologies are provided, and their process chemistries and key technical …
characteristics are true of the process selected: The use of proven unit processes and equipment. High metal recovery and good product quality. The recovery of other valuable metals such as gold and silver can be carried out economically. The process is flexible in terms of the mineralogy, grade and impurity concentrations it can
The Intec Nickel Process is a two-stage atmospheric leaching process developed for processing base metal sulfide concentrates containing precious metals and PGMs. Much of the development work for the Intec Process focused on copper extraction from copper sulfide concentrates (Moyes and Houlis Citation 2003; Palmer and Johnson Citation …
Sulphidization is an aqueous process by which a non-sulphide mineral surface is converted to a sulphidelike surface and has been successfully used to improve the flotation recoveries of oxidized copper minerals and oxidized lead ores. ... Petersen, and Eksteen, 2012), but such ores require preleaching of base metals (Cu and Ni) to avoid high ...
The original patent for the Albion Process TM covered the ultra-fine grinding of base metal sulfide concentrate or ore to a P 80 of 20 µm or less followed by leaching in a sulfuric acid medium containing dissolved ferric and …
2 Base Metal Refiningblown Converters Sulphur Removal •Nickel •Copper •Cobalt Sulphate •Sodium Sulphate •Nickel sulphate Base Metal Refining (incl. Magnetic Concentration for some players) Precious Metal Refining •PGMs •Gold Incorporating PGMs into various end applications Processing: c.10% of input from non-integrated miners
This research proposes a new conceptual process to economically extract platinum group metals (PGMs), and as a secondary aim, base metals (BMs) from a low-grade concentrate originating from ...
Pyrometallurgical extraction is used in conventional sulphide concentrate processing, but due to high costs and pollution problems, hydrometallurgical processing is an attractive method for the selective extraction of valuable base …
The major process occurring during oxidation of PGM ores is the decomposition of base metal sulfides and formation of iron oxyhydroxides. Numerous accounts exist on the …
Hydrometallurgical process for nickel sulfide ore was developed in 1970s, which is to transfer valuable metals to liquid phase from solid ore by chemical leaching, and then extracts valuable metals by solvent extraction, chemical precipitation, crystallization, and other means [25–27]. Generally during a hydrometallurgical process of nickel ...
Base metal sulphide ores exist in many areas of the World and are a potential source of copper, nickel and cobalt. A large portion of copper and nickel is produced from sulphide concentrates by the conventional smelting and hydrometallurgical processes. Pyrometallurgical processes have several detriments including high capital costs, losses of …
Another challenge with Ni-Cu sulphide ores is related to the process behaviour of non-sulphide minerals present in the host rock. These are Mg-bearing complex silicates with a very low background concentration of nickel or copper. ... Talc, Mg 3 Si 4 O 10 (OH) 2 in this group, exists in some base metal sulphides, and some molybdenite ores ...
The benefit of having a SART process in the cyanidation process is that it breaks the base metal cyanide complexes, precipitates the metals as high-grade sulfide concentrates, and frees the cyanide for recirculation to the leaching process . The SART process is described by the following sequence of unit operations:
In South Africa, the largest platinum-group metal deposit is the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), containing 3-9 g/t platinum-group metals in ore, associated with base metals (Ni, Cu, etc.) with ...
This led to very early human use in several regions, from c. 8000 BC. Thousands of years later, it was the first metal to be smelted from sulfide ores, c. 5000 BC, the first metal to be cast into a shape in a mold, c. 4000 BC and the first metal to be purposefully alloyed with another metal, tin, to create bronze, c. 3500 BC.
Generally, silver is also dissolved by the cyanide solution and follows the gold through the process sequence. Iron sulfide minerals, which are common constituents of gold ores, are oxidized to some extent during the cyanide leach, thus resulting in the formation of acid. ... complex base metal ores in which the precious metals are important ...
From sulfide ores. Sulfide ores are crushed and ground in order to liberate nickel minerals from the waste materials by selective flotation. In this process, the ore is mixed with special reagents and agitated by mechanical and pneumatic devices that produce air bubbles. As these rise through the mixture, the sulfide particles adhere to their ...
The flowsheet in this study was designed to treat 500 tons per day of a complex base metal ore containing gold and silver values. The presence of free gold offers opportunity to recover these values in the grinding circuit so that the gold could be amalgamated, and marketed directly to the U.S. mint.
metals. The PGM minerals present in the ore have varying associations with base metal sulphide minerals and gangue minerals. The Kell hydrometallurgical process for extraction of platinum group metals and base metals from flotation concentrates by K.S. Liddell*, and M.D. Adams† Synopsis The Kell Process has been developed for the extraction ...
Existing processes for the recovery of platinum group metals (PGM) from UG-2 ores place stringent requirements with regard to chromite content upon feed material to the plant. An alternative hydrometallurgical process for which this is not an issue is proposed that involves reductive roasting of the ore followed by leaching with
I. Introduction. A polymetallic gold ore in the Al Amar region, Saudi Arabia, is rich in sulfide minerals of base metals, namely, sphalerite (ZnFeS), pyrite (FeS 2), chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2), and a minority of galena (PbS) 1,2 The ore is commercially exploited since 2006 at a production rate of 200 000 t/year. Figure Figure1 1 a shows a simplified sequence of industrial …
The iron sulfide mineral, pyrrhotite (Fe(1–x)S), has long been known to be more difficult to recover by flotation from alkaline slurries than many other base metal sulfide minerals.
Complex sulphide ores represent considerable reserves and resources in base non ferrous metals, in precious metals, and in sulphur. Some of their essential characteristics, which allow a general presentation of the complexity of their processing options, from the ore to the pure metals or finished products, have already been presented by the author (1,2).
About 80% of the worlds' reserves for platinum group metals (PGMs) are in South Africa's Bushveld Igneous Complex. Processing of PGM involves comminution, flotation, smelting, converting, base metals refinery and precious metals refinery. Due to increasing chrome content in the feed and the challenges associated with operating high chrome feed, …