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公开(公告)号:US10358692B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-23
申请号:US15521306
申请日:2015-10-16
摘要: A hydrometallurgical process is provided for the selective extraction of one or more target metals from ore, concentrates, tailings, slags or other metal bearing solids, by combining simultaneously leaching with sorption in the state of wet solids. The sorption and leaching are performed simultaneously, which reduces the required number of process stages in comparison to conventional technologies. Performing the sorption leaching in wet solids enables a significant increase in the concentration of leaching agents in relation to target metal(s) content in solids, at the same addition rate of said leaching agents, improving thermodynamic conditions and leaching kinetics for dissolving target metal(s). The invention has the main advantage of improving metal recoveries at a reduced consumption rate of leaching agents.
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公开(公告)号:US20190032169A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-31
申请号:US16049681
申请日:2018-07-30
发明人: Thomas Joseph SEAL
摘要: In embodiments, pressurized fluid containing reagents of formulated mixtures of solids, liquids and gasses are delivered into a cased well then into the heap or pile to open or stimulate new horizontal and vertical fluid pathways, channels, plus drains from the open bottom of the well to the bottom of the heap or pile for fluid collection. This delivery method may also drain any fluids that are retained and pooled in the heap or pile. The removal of pooled fluids will increase the inter-particle cohesion and friction in the heap or pile, thus adding geotechnical stability and resistance to movement of the heap or pile. The cased wells may also add shear strength to the collective to retard movement of the heap or pile.
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公开(公告)号:US20190017144A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-17
申请号:US16066737
申请日:2016-12-27
申请人: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD. , NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
摘要: A method for separating metal components from a treatment material containing a silicate and metal elements includes: a reaction step of reacting the treatment material and a molten alkali hydroxide in which bubbles due to water vapor derived from water are generated by heating a hydroxide of an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal and the water in a state where the hydroxide and the water coexist, to obtain a reaction product; and a first precipitation step of dissolving the reaction product of the treatment material and the molten alkali hydroxide after the reaction step in water, thereby generating a precipitate containing the metal elements.
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公开(公告)号:US10179942B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-15
申请号:US14558546
申请日:2014-12-02
发明人: John L. Burba, III
IPC分类号: C22B59/00 , C22B3/20 , C01F17/00 , C22B3/02 , C22B3/04 , C22B3/42 , C22B23/00 , C22B34/34 , C25B7/00
摘要: A mineral processing facility is provided that includes a cogen plant to provide electrical energy and waste heat to the facility and an electrochemical acid generation plant to generate, from a salt, a mineral acid for use in recovering valuable metals.
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公开(公告)号:US20180369869A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-27
申请号:US15980462
申请日:2018-05-15
摘要: This invention relates to a process for recovering value metals from sulphide ore, including steps of crushing ore in a primary crusher (14) to a size of about 40 cm and less, passing the crushed ore through one or more of the following pre-beneficiation processes such as bulk sorting (16) and screening (20) followed by coarse floatation (46/50), or gravity separation or magnetic separation. A waste stream (54) from the pre-beneficiation process/es with a particle size greater than 100 μm is stacked in a heap (26) and subjected to a heap leach. This integrated process utilises the pre-beneficiation techniques best suited to the characteristics of a particular orebody; and during the pre-beneficiation simultaneously creating a low grade stream that yields significantly higher recoveries than achievable by normal heap leaching of low grade run of mine ore.
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公开(公告)号:US10124346B2
公开(公告)日:2018-11-13
申请号:US15010196
申请日:2016-01-29
IPC分类号: B03D1/02 , C22B19/02 , C22B19/20 , C22B3/00 , C22B23/00 , C22B1/00 , C22B3/04 , C22B1/14 , C22B11/00 , C22B13/00 , C22B15/00
摘要: This invention relates to a process for recovering valuable metals from ore with significantly reduced water consumption through the discrete treatment and storage of coarse tailings. Ore is ground to produce a coarse particulate ore. The coarse particulate ore is treated in a coarse flotation stage to produce a low grade concentrate fraction and a coarse tailings fraction. The low grade concentrate fraction is treated to produce fine tailings and a saleable concentrate. The coarse tailings are treated separately from the fine tailings and water is recovered from the coarse tailings by hydraulically stacking; filtering or screening, whereafter the coarse tailings are dry stacked, without being recombined with the fine tailings.
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公开(公告)号:US09982325B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-29
申请号:US14933559
申请日:2015-11-05
CPC分类号: C22B59/00 , C21B15/00 , C22B3/0005 , C22B3/04 , C22B3/08 , C22B3/44 , Y02P10/234
摘要: Methods are provided for the recovery of scandium from scandium-bearing ores. The methods included leaching under atmospheric conditions using various acids. Solution impurities are removed from the leachate and scandium values are then recovered from the leachate.
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公开(公告)号:US20170356066A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-14
申请号:US15539552
申请日:2015-12-04
CPC分类号: C22B11/08 , B01J20/3416 , B01J38/485 , C01B17/033 , C22B3/24 , C22B11/04 , Y02P10/234
摘要: The present invention is intended for effectively removing copper, iron, sulfur, which are impurities, from activated carbon on which gold is adsorbed before gold eluting in the point of view of gold recovery, and is related to a method for eluting gold from an activated carbon on which at least sulfur (S) and gold (Au) are adsorbed, whereas the activated carbon is washed with an alkali solution before eluting the gold, and then the gold is eluted from the activated carbon.
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公开(公告)号:US20170338531A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-23
申请号:US15674028
申请日:2017-08-10
IPC分类号: H01M10/54 , C22B3/00 , B01J6/00 , B01J8/00 , C22B3/04 , C22B3/02 , B01J19/24 , B01J19/06 , H01M6/52 , C22B7/00
CPC分类号: H01M10/54 , B01J6/001 , B01J6/002 , B01J8/008 , B01J19/06 , B01J19/2465 , B01J2208/00805 , C22B3/02 , C22B3/04 , C22B7/006 , C22B7/007 , C22B7/009 , C22B13/04 , C22B13/045 , H01M6/52 , Y02P10/234 , Y02W30/84
摘要: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods by which lead from spent lead-acid batteries may be extracted, purified, and used in the production of new lead-acid batteries. The system includes a first phase separation device configured to: receive the first mixture from the basic lead stream digestion device, isolate a liquid component from one or more insoluble components of the first mixture, and output the liquid component. The system also includes a lead salt precipitation device configured to: receive and mix the liquid component and a carboxylate source to form a second mixture including a lead salt precipitate, and output the second mixture. The system further includes a second phase separation device configured to: receive the second mixture from the lead salt precipitation device, isolate the liquid component from the lead salt precipitate of the second mixture, and output the lead salt precipitate.
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公开(公告)号:US20170306440A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-26
申请号:US15521306
申请日:2015-10-16
摘要: A hydrometallurgical process is provided for the selective extraction of one or more target metals from ore, concentrates, tailings, slags or other metal bearing solids, by combining simultaneously leaching with sorption in the state of wet solids. The sorption is performed by means of sorbents such as ion exchange resins, activated carbon, zeolites, among others, and mixtures thereof. The process comprises the steps of: (a) blending the metal bearing solids with acidic or basic leaching agents, one or more sorbents, and a sufficient amount of an aqueous solution to wet substantially both the metal bearing solids and the sorbent without formation of a slurry, thereby obtaining wet solids; (b) performing sorption leaching in wet solids; (c) diluting the wet solids and preparing a pulp by adding an aqueous solution; (d) separating the loaded sorbent from the pulp; (e) eluting (desorbing) target metals from the loaded sorbent with an eluent to an eluate, returning thereafter the sorbent back to the blending step (a); and (f) recovering target metals from the eluate to obtain one or more final metal products, returning the eluent back to the elution step (e). The invention has the main advantage of improving metal recoveries at a reduced consumption rate of leaching agents.
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