Method for carbon-catalysed thiosulfate leaching of gold-bearing materials

    公开(公告)号:US12065714B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US18122279

    申请日:2023-03-16

    IPC分类号: C22B11/00 C22B3/42

    CPC分类号: C22B11/04 C22B3/42

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to a gold recovery process in which activated carbon or another carbon-based material is used to accelerate thiosulfate leaching of gold from a gold-bearing material. The present disclosure improves the overall precious metal recovery of thiosulfate refractory precious metal-bearing materials. Leaching is done by substantially simultaneously mixing a slurry containing the precious metal-bearing material, water, thiosulfate, a carbon-based material, and dissolved molecular oxygen (as the oxidizing reagent) and performing leaching in the presence of the various components for a predetermined residence time. The carbon-based material is maintained in the slurry during leaching to provide increased gold recoveries.

    METHOD FOR ARSENIC OXIDATION AND REMOVAL FROM PROCESS AND WASTE SOLUTIONS
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    发明申请
    METHOD FOR ARSENIC OXIDATION AND REMOVAL FROM PROCESS AND WASTE SOLUTIONS 审中-公开
    从过程和废物溶液中去除氧化和去除的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140356261A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-04

    申请号:US14287910

    申请日:2014-05-27

    IPC分类号: C22B30/04 C22B30/02 C01G49/00

    摘要: The disclosure relates to the oxidation and immobilization of trivalent arsenic from arsenic-containing solutions. The process includes oxidation of trivalent arsenic (As3+) species to the pentavalent state (As5+). A carbon additive (e.g., activated carbon) and oxygen are used to promote the arsenic oxidation processes. After oxidation of arsenic to the pentavalent state, the arsenic can be removed by precipitation to ferric arsenate or calcium arsenate or other arsenic containing compounds known in the art. The oxidation of arsenic can also occur simultaneously with the production and precipitation of ferric arsenate (e.g., scorodite). Ferrous iron can be oxidized to ferric iron in the presence of activated carbon and oxygen.

    摘要翻译: 本公开涉及从含砷溶液中氧化和固定三价砷。 该方法包括将三价砷(As3 +)物质氧化成五价态(As5 +)。 使用碳添加剂(例如活性炭)和氧来促进砷的氧化过程。 在将砷氧化成五价态之后,可通过沉淀砷酸砷或砷酸钙或本领域已知的其它含砷化合物来除去砷。 砷的氧化也可以与砷酸铁(例如,臭葱石)的生成和沉淀同时发生。 在活性炭和氧气存在下,亚铁可以氧化成三价铁。

    Separation of copper minerals from pyrite using air-metabisulfite treatment

    公开(公告)号:US10258996B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15077718

    申请日:2016-03-22

    发明人: Barun Gorain

    摘要: The present invention relates to flotation of sulfidic copper-molybdenum- and gold-containing minerals. More specifically, the invention relates to sulfoxy reagent-assisted floatation for separating of sulfides of copper, molybdenum and gold from pyrite, marcasite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, and other gangue minerals following aerating by an oxidizing gas and contacting by a sulfoxy reagent. To promote collection and flotation the feed mineral materials are preferably not contacted with an externally generated non-oxidizing gas to lower the dissolved molecular oxygen content prior to flotation.

    METHOD FOR RECOVERING PRECIOUS METALS FROM THIOSULFATE LEACH SOLUTIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20200377970A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-03

    申请号:US16892043

    申请日:2020-06-03

    IPC分类号: C22B3/00 C22B3/16

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to a process for thiosulfate leaching of a precious metal-containing material and recovering a precious metal from a pregnant leach solution using a resin extractant. The precious metal is eluted from the loaded resin optionally using an eluant comprising trithionate. Various process improvements include maintaining the thiosulfate-containing leach solution substantially free of thiols and amines, maintaining a concentration of a sulfide in the thiosulfate leach solution of no more than about 100 ppm, recycling the barren resin free of contact with a sulfide, bisulfide, and polysulfide, and/or maintaining a concentration of tetrathionates, trithionates, sulfur-oxygen anions, and/or combinations thereof within about 50% of a concentration level of the one or more of tetrathionates, trithionates, sulfur-oxygen anions, the combinations thereof in the precious metal-containing solution before contact with the recycled barren resin.