It is beyond the scope of this review to consider the acid leaching of nickel bearing oxide minerals in ocean nodules. Emerging AL technologies that employ hydrochloric acid and fungal or microbial metabolites (viz. …
This review examines the atmospheric leaching (AL) of nickel laterite ores with sulphuric acid, specifically the limonite, smectite (clay) and saprolite fractions. The kinetics and mechanism of leaching of the key minerals …
The results show that 98.7% of nickel and 89.8% of cobalt are leached from the calcined limonitic laterite under optimized leaching conditions; meanwhile, 98.3% of iron is converted into insoluble ...
Therefore, this paper focuses on studying the optimal process parameters and the mechanism of sulphation roasting followed by water leaching achieving efficient synchronous extraction of nickel ...
Microbial leaching of mineral sulfides can be efficiently brought at low pH ... It has also been established that the bioleaching efficiency is 2.7 times greater than the chemical leaching in terms of Al ... Minwal WP, Chaerun SK (2013) Effects of several parameters on nickel extraction from laterite ore by direct bioelaching using aspergillus ...
The first chemical step of their process was sulfuric acid leaching. Hydroxide phases of Ni, Cd and Co were readily soluble at low acid concentration (e.g. pH ≈ 1) for …
Nickel and cobalt ions can also be used as the oxidants for gold in ammoniaâˆ'thiosulfate solutions. ... 1945: 357. [23] FLETT D S, WILSON J C, DERRY R. Chemical study of thiosulphate leaching of silver sulfide [J]. Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, …
Nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) are strategic metals that have found applications in a wide range of metallurgical and industrial uses. In this study, the dissolution of a mixed nickel–cobalt hydroxide precipitate using organic acids (citric, oxalic, and malic acid) was investigated. Citric acid was found to be the best leaching agent yielding the following …
This paper describes the experimental findings of the extraction of nickel and cobalt by high pressure acid leaching (HPAL) of a refractory limonitic nickel laterite ore …
The leaching kinetics study shows that nickel extraction from limonite ore by a mixture of 2 M sulfuric acid and 0.5 M citric acids is controlled by diffusion through solid product layer, while the nickel extraction from saprolite ore by a mixture of 0.5 M sulfuric acid and 2 M citric acid is controlled by interface reaction with activation ...
Abstract This review provides an update to the last mini-review with the same title pertaining to recent developments in bioleaching and biooxidation published in 2013 (Brierley and Brierley). In the intervening almost 10 years, microbial processes for sulfide minerals have seen increased acceptance and ongoing but also declining …
Pressure acid leaching has been applied to the Caron process to reduce high-energy consuming phases in direct ore leaching. Direct leaching eliminates the need for drying and reduction steps, which then leads to energy savings (Buyukakinci, 2008).The acceptable nickel content in this method is 1–5% (Dalvi et al., 2004).Also, the crushed …
Basturkcu and Acarkan used sulfuric digestion followed by roasting and leaching for nickel and iron extraction from a nickel laterite ore containing mainly quartz …
These SS grades differ by their chemical compositions of metals including nickel and chromium. SS grade 304 contains approximately 18–20% mass fraction chromium, and 8–12% nickel, whereas SS grade 316 contain approximately 16–18% chromium, and 10–14% nickel; other metals may also vary within the grades ( 20 ).
Lateritic nickel minerals constitute about 80% of nickel reserves in the world, but their contribution for nickel production is about 40%. The obstacles in extraction of nickel from lateritic minerals are attributed to their very complex mineralogy and low nickel content. Hence, the existing metallurgical techniques are not techno …
Abstract. Following the growing demand for Ni and Co and the dwindling supplies of sulfide nickel ore, attention has turned toward the more efficient exploitation and utilization of laterite ore. Using …
The chemical reaction for the leaching of silver can be given by: Ag 2 S + 4NaCN → 2Na[Ag(CN) 2] + Na 2 S. Leaching is also responsible for the loss of nutrients present in soil due to heavy rains. Advantages and Disadvantages of Leaching Process. Advantages of Leaching include: The process is easy to execute.
The leaching behavior of nickel and iron in limonite-type laterite nickel ore was studied through ammonium hydrogen sulfate atmospheric leaching. The leaching temperature, ammonium bisulfate concentration, reaction time, and acid excess rate during the nickel dissolution process were optimized using the response surface methodology …
Hydrometallurgical techniques such as heap leaching (HL), atmospheric leaching (AL), high-pressure sulfuric acid leaching (HPAL), Caron process, and direct …
Atmospheric leaching (AL) residues are dominated by compounds in the form of the mineral Fayalite with a high Si content (Si > 50%). Furthermore, Jarosite is a …
Following the growing demand for Ni and Co and the dwindling supplies of sulfide nickel ore, attention has turned toward the more efficient exploitation and utilization of laterite ore. Using ammonium chloride acid solution to leach is an effective method. Our research concerned investigations on the leaching mechanism and leaching kinetics of …
2.1. Sulfide mineralogy. A list of economically important nickel sulfide and arsenide minerals, as well as common sulfidic gangue in nickel sulfide deposits is presented in Table 3.Pentlandite is the most important nickel sulfide mineral and commonly occurs with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite.
Nickel was mostly hosted by goethite, the most abundant mineral phase, but nickel was also present in Mn-rich minerals (e.g. asbolane) and magnesium silicates (e.g. serpentine). ... Chemical leaching tests performed with different concentrations of sulfuric acid and with hydrochloric acid, and with sulfuric acid plus ferrous iron as a …
Introduction: Vat leaching is a widely utilized extraction technique in the field of hydrometallurgy, specifically for the recovery of valuable minerals from low-grade ores. This process involves the percolation of a leaching solution through a bed of crushed ore contained in a vat or tank. Vat leaching offers numerous advantages over traditional …
The key mineral leaching reaction in the bioleaching of a sulphide mineral is the oxidation of the metal sulphide ... Bacterial and chemical leaching are influenced by environmental, ... Some factors that affect beneficiation of sulphide nickel–copper ores. Minerals Engineering, 20 (7) (2007), pp. 629-641.
Clays in the Minerals Processing Value Chain - August 2017. ... Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, 81 (4), 688 ... Pressure acid leaching of nickel laterites: A review. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 21 (6), 527 ...
Metallurgy - Leaching, Extraction, Refining: Oxides are leached with a sulfuric acid or sodium carbonate solvent, while sulfates can be leached with water or sulfuric acid. Ammonium hydroxide is used for native ores, carbonates, and sulfides, and sodium hydroxide is used for oxides. Cyanide solutions are a solvent for the precious metals, …
Introduction. The first report in this recurring series on microbial processes in the minerals industries was published in 2003 (Olson et al. 2003), followed by an update after 10 years (Brierley and Brierley 2013) with bioleaching and biooxidation of sulfide minerals, primarily copper (in the case of bioleaching) and refractory gold ores …
Kinetics, as a fundamental requirement of nearly all industrial activities and engineering researches, plays a great role in leaching processes. Although there are many pieces of research on its application, there is not a clear pathway for investigating the kinetics of leaching and researchers usually follow different strategies in their studies. The …
The paper focuses on leaching of complex copper–cobalt–nickel ore from Mwinilunga district in Zambia, containing 0.6% Cu, 0.21% Co, 2.6% Fe, and 0.13% Ni. Mineralogical examination of the ore using scanning electron microscope (SEM) showed that copper, cobalt, and nickel exist in fine particles of heterogenite and limonite …
The reduction roasting ammonia leaching process (RRAL) originally defined by Caron (1950) has been extensively applied to treat low grade nickel laterite and a large amount of slag-containing some valuable metals, has been generated and accumulated over the years since then. However, there are no reports on how to utilize it …
The mineral acids, ... leach residue was also analyzed, and showed that the remaining contents of cobalt, lithium, and nickel in the leaching residue were as low as 0.11%, 0.03%, and 0.17%, respectively. ... J. Recovery of Co and Li from spent lithium-ion batteries by combination method of acid leaching and chemical precipitation. Trans ...
This research work deals with the extraction of nickel from a low grade nickel laterite ore, taken from a deposit located in southwestern of Iran, through agitation …
Not only do copper minerals dissolve in cyanide and cause excessive consumption of this chemical, but also, the copper cyanogen complexes thus formed indirectly affect the dissolution of the gold. In addition, the copper in solution influences the precipitation of gold by zinc .
Nickel, cobalt and scandium are released into the leaching solution as the carrier minerals are dissolved, and the chemical reactions are shown in Eq. (18), (19), (20) . The independent mineral of aluminum is mainly gibbsite, which is converted into boehmite (AlOOH) during preheating, and boehmite is dissolved and precipitated into as …
Based on the present study, the activated carbon in the nickel sulfide leaching with sulfuric acid seem to be more as a catalyst. 4.2. Leaching kinetics. In addition to the possible reaction mechanisms, the kinetics of the leaching involving the catalyst also merits investigations. The current study focuses on the leaching behavior of nickel.