Hydrometallurgical processing of copperbearing materials (ores, concentrates, byproducts) is usually done with the use of acidic or ammonia leaching. In the case where a leaching feed material contains significant amounts of carbonate rocks and iron minerals the second method is preferential due to a higher process selectivity.
May 01, 2020 · During the cyanidation of gold‑copper ores, adding a certain amount of ammonia compounds (NH 3 ·H 2 O, NH 4 HCO 3, (NH 4) 2 ·SO 4, glycine etc.) could effectively reduce the consumption of cyanide caused by dissolution of copper minerals, and promoted the leaching .
Electrochemical measurements showed that the ammonia has greatly suppressed the anodic halfreaction. The final gold leach system to be investigated was one containing oxygen, cyanide, copper(I) and ammonia, the latter two components being maintained at a fixed ratio of 1:4 while varying the copper to cyanide ratio from approximately 1:6 to l:2.
Although ammonia leaching of copper from slags has been reported generally as a part of copper slag utilization methods, but no detailed studies have been reported in the literature. In this research, we tried to investigate the effect of different parameters on ammonia leaching of copper from copper smelting slag by identifying different copperbearing phases and following them during ...
The effects of oxidized copper ores which came from Yunnan province were carried out by using ammonialeaching methods in the order to seek the optimum leaching conditions under normal temperature and pressure,we conducted a series of validation experiments. Theoptimum conditions were obtained as follows: ammonia concentration /L, ammonium .
Ammonia can form complexes with many heavy metals and change the leaching characteristics of these metals. This research tends to develop a fundamental understanding of the ammonia impact on the leaching of some heavy metals, exemplified by Cu(II) and Cd(II), under different pH conditions.
Nov 24, 1997 · The ammoniaammonium carbonate leaching of roastreduced polymetallic nodules analysing % copper, % nickel and % cobalt was carried out in lock cycle mode. The steady state composition was analysing g/L copper, g/L nickel and g/L cobalt with leach recoveries of %, % and %, respectively.
Feb 28, 2017 · Acid regeneration can also be a problem for ammonia leach systems for obvious reasons. ... This was the traditional route to hode copper for high copper solutions from vat leaching .
Jan 02, 2012 · A leaching of % gold was obtained under the optimum condition of ammonium thiosulfate, 40 mM copper sulfate, pH:, pulp density: 10 g/L at room temperature and stirring speed of 250 rpm in 8h duration. The maximum leaching of gold in the pH range may be attributed to the higher stability of the ammonium thiosulfate.
Batch leaching tests showed that Navidad ore samples may be leached using thiosulfate, with silver extraction affected by variables including thiosulfate concentration, ammonia concentration, initial copper addition, pH, temperature, EDTA addition and the presence or absence of air sparging.
The results obtained revealed that the recovery of nickel and copper from the matte was greatly influenced by the concentration of ammonia, leaching time, leaching temperature, and pH. It was established from this study that the highest dissolution of nickel and copper was obtained at 3 M and 2 M ammonia concentration, respectively.
A system composed of persulfate salt and ammonia in highly alkaline aqueous solution is developed and examined for leaching metallic silver from elements of the electronic waste materials (escrap). Strong base activates persulfate ions providing in situ generation of highly reactive oxygen molecule .
NICKEL ELECTROLYSIS The nickel leach, filter, and electrolysis circuits were considered to be the same as for the copper circuit. AMMONIA STRIPPER Because of the introduction of 80 tons of water per day into the leach circuit with the raw sludge, it was assumed that a leach liquor bleed stream would be steamstripped to produce an NH3C02 ...
Aug 21, 2014 · For aluminium, chromium, iron and lead, ammonia had little impact on their leaching behaviour. With respect to cadmium, copper, nickel and zinc, high ammonia concentrations significantly increased leaching in the pH range of 8–12 due to the formation of metalammonia complexes, which was also proved in the speciation calculations.
Discussion. The copper ion in the aqueous solution of exists predominantly as [Cu (H 2 O) 6] 2+. This complex ion imparts a characteristic pale blue color to the solution. Since ammonia is a weak base, when it is added, hydroxide ion forms: NH 3 ( aq) + H 2 O ( l) <==> NH 4+ ( aq) + OH ( aq ); pK b = (1) The hydroxide ion reacts with the ...