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Leaching
Solution purification
Reduction
Melting
and casting
Cu
concentrate
Silver
NaCl
Leach Gold
residue
H2
NaOH
Cl
Cu wire rod
FILLING VISIONS
Chlor-alkali electrolysis
impurities, such as arsenic and mercury, which can be harmful in pyrometallurgical processes. According
to Outotec, the process has been designed to meet the strictest directives
for emissions.
Alternative technologies, which are
said to be especially effective on high
carbonate ores, have been developed
by MetaLeach Ltd. (London, U.K.;
www.metaleach.com), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Alexander Mining plc.
The company owns the intellectual
property to two ambient temperature, ambient pressure, hydrometallurgical technologies, AmmLeach and
HyperLeach.
The AmmLeach process utilizes ammonia-based chemistry for the extraction of base metals, especially copper,
nickel, zinc and cobalt from ore deposits and concentrates.
The primary difference between
AmmLeach and acid leaching is that
the leaching is conducted in a moderately alkaline solution, which allows
using AmmLeach on high carbonate
ores where acid consumption would
be prohibitive. Also, in the AmmLeach
process, undesirable metals and other
impurities are either insoluble or significantly suppressed, with considerable capital and operating cost savings, says the company.
The process has an extremely high
selectivity for the target metal over
iron and manganese, which are insoluble under AmmLeach conditions.
The company said it has developed
a new process for the solvent extraction of zinc from ammoniacal solutions. It said testing has shown that
zinc can be efficiently extracted using
commercially available reagents in a
single stage and stripped with acid solutions, with greater selectivity than
has previously been reported.
TURNKEY VISIONS
process technologies
which are free of interfaces:
stocking mixing filling
complete turnkey plants
from the
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