Study of Factors Affecting the Copper Ore Leaching …
It was established that during the leaching process, silicate compounds of alkaline earth metals, in addition to calcium and magnesium carbonate compounds, …
It was established that during the leaching process, silicate compounds of alkaline earth metals, in addition to calcium and magnesium carbonate compounds, …
The most successful copper heap leaching operations have been those processing copper oxides and secondary copper sulphides (Table 1).Chalcocite (Cu 2 S) is the main copper sulphide mineral mined at bioleaching operations. Some of the chalcocite heap operations began as oxide (chemical) leach operations and were …
Vat leaching allows the processing of larger particle size materials than reactors, and thus can also be used for low-grade ores. In heap leaching, the ore is crushed, often also ground, and agglomerated with H 2 SO 4, and piled on a water-impermeable leach pad. The heaps are aerated from the bottom.
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106710 Corpus ID: 229386822; Novel approach for processing complex carbonate-rich copper-cobalt mixed ores via reverse flotation @article{Dehaine2020NovelAF, title={Novel approach for processing complex carbonate-rich copper-cobalt mixed ores via reverse flotation}, author={Quentin …
Heap leaching accounts for a fifth of global copper production, sourced primarily from porphyry ores, yet metal recoveries are often not optimal. Gangue, and its interaction with acid, plays an important role in such processes. Thus, a proper understanding of gangue minerals present in the ore, their textural relationships relative …
Heap-leaching of low-grade nickeliferous laterites with sulphuric acid results in a need to remove magnesium from the leach liquors produced during the hydrometallurgical process of nickel and ...
The refinery at Fort Saskatchewan was one of the first to utilise ammonia as a leaching reagent (Cooper and Mihaylov, 1997).The ammoniacal process involves pressure leaching of the nickel concentrate and matte with ammonia and oxygen in a series of autoclaves operating at 105–120 °C (Crundwell et al., 2011).This process aims to …
Heap leaching consists of trickling H2SO4-containing lixiviant uniformly through flat-surfaced heaps of crushed ore, agglomerated, or run-of-mine ore. Heap …
The Newmont Mining, Nevada, operation has successfully developed a combined biooxidation–thiosulfate heap-leaching process for carbonaceous/high sulfide ores and a direct thiosulfate heap ...
Inplace leaching techniques are applicable to leaching oxide and sulfide ores of copper and other metals. The basic principles involved are similar to those for dump or heap leaching. The leach solutions must pass downward through the ore and contact and dissolve the copper-bearing minerals.
Although heap leaching using sulfuric acid was introduced to the uranium industry in the 1950s, sodium carbonate–bicarbonate (alkaline) heap leaching of low-grade Ca-carbonate-rich uranium ores has recently gained popularity. This study presents the results of two column tests on a calcrete-type uranium–vanadium (carnotite) ore …
1. Introduction. Heap leaching accounts for approximately 17% of global gold and 21% of global copper production, respectively (Marsden and Botz, 2017; Basov, 2015).It is the only economic technology available to extract value metals from low-grade ores; however, the slow rate of recovery is a major drawback, and in most cases is …
The extraction of copper from the Bayskoye deposit for the same period was 66.13%, with a moderate consumption of sulfuric acid due to the presence of a noticeable amount of carbonate and silicate …
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(11)61538-0 Corpus ID: 73719281; Leaching kinetics of low-grade copper ore containing calcium-magnesium carbonate in ammonia-ammonium sulfate solution with persulfate
The heap leaching methods applied to refractory ore differ in important ways from those of conventional heap leaching of non-refractory ore. The latter is applicable to scenarios where the pH gradient in a heap can reasonably be controlled in such a manner that the pH remains above 9 in the leach solution.
Leaching of malachite ore in aqueous ammonia/ammonium carbonate at 25 °C, solid to liquid ratio of 1:10, stirring speed of 300 rpm, particle size < 450 μm, has …
Alkaline leaching is used when the ore contains a high calcium carbonate (calcite) and magnesium carbonate (dolomite) content. Future uranium heap leach projects will benefit from the experience gained from copper and gold heap leaching, including strong acid cures, heap building techniques and operating strategies.
Accelerated carbonation of ultramafic mine tailings has the potential to offset CO 2 emissions produced by mining ores from Cu-Ni-platinum group element, podiform chromite, diamondiferous kimberlite, and historical chrysotile deposits. Treatments such as acid leaching, reaction of tailings with elevated concentrations of gaseous CO 2, and …
In this investigation, a laboratory-scale study to extract copper (Cu) from its oxide ore (0.425–11.2 mm particle size) was conducted using varied sulfuric acid (H2SO4) concentrations (0.05–0.5 M) as a lixiviant. Through a physicochemical and mineralogical analysis of real field ore samples from the Almalyk mine heap site (Tashkent, …
In this investigation, a laboratory-scale study to extract copper (Cu) from its oxide ore (0.425–11.2 mm particle size) was conducted using varied sulfuric acid (H2SO4) …
A geometallurgical model, linked to simple ore body characteristics, was established to understand short- and long-term gangue acid consumption (GAC) variability for a new copper sulfide chemical ...
A characteristic feature of serpentine oxidized nickel ores (ONO) of the Serov deposit (≈ 1 wt.% Ni) is the increased content of iron and magnesium. The main nickel-containing phases are lizardite, antigorite, clinochlore and iron oxides with the nickel content varying from 1.6 to 9.2 wt.%.Heap (percolation) leaching with aqueous H2SO4 …
A geometallurgical model, linked to simple ore body characteristics, was established to understand short- and long-term gangue acid consumption (GAC) variability for a new copper sulfide chemical heap leaching process under standard metallurgical conditions, including an acid dose of 12 kg/t sulfuric acid during agglomeration at a …
The success of the sulfation-roasting-leaching process depends on iron behavior. Due to its higher amount, it is sulfated before nickel. However, the stability of iron sulfates is lower than the nickel sulfate and during the decomposition of iron sulfate, the sulfur xide (SO 3) is liberated and reacts with nickel to form nickel sulfate.This …
Uranium producers have also used heap leaching since the late 1950's for extracting uranium from sub-mill-grade ores and for exploiting relatively small low-grade ore deposits. Heap-leach cyanidation is a comparatively recent development suggested by Bureau of Mines metallurgists in 1967 as a potential low-capital means for processing ...
Proceedings of Heap Leach Solutions, 2015 September 14-16, 2015, Reno, Nevada, USA ... copper ores, though there are ample examples gold and copper ores with lower permeability or shear ... interest is the presence and nature of hydrated carbonate and sulfate minerals, acid-base reactivity, and ...
Copper-containing rock, or copper ore, holds only a small percentage of copper. Most of the rock is unwanted material, typically referred to as gangue.There are two main types of copper ore that ...
CHALCOPYRITE VERY SLOW LEACHING A-Z of Copper Ore Leaching 5 LEACHABILITY OF COPPER MINERALS • Leachability in sulphuric acid solutions varies enormously (see Table 1). Orebodies frequently contain a mix of minerals, commonly varying with depth. • Oxide minerals also are amenable to ammonia/ammonium …
The treatment of copper ores, both oxides and sulfides by means of flotation, hydrometallurgy or other processes has been well established for many years. Flotation has been applied generally to the treatment of sulfide ores, both in small and large scale operations. Hydrometallurgical methods alone or in combination with flotation have …
Heap leaching is the most important method of hydrometallurgical copper extraction. Heap leaching is used for treating oxide and lower-grade secondary sulfide ores that contain up to ∼2% Cu. The ore is crushed to a uniform particle size (typically 12–50 mm), often agglomerated, and then stacked on large flat-topped heaps in a controlled manner.. …