C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 22 – B
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
22
B
53/329
C22B 3/38 (2006.01) C22B 19/20 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2028324
Zinc is selectively extracted from zinc sulfate solutions that may also contain sulfuric acid and amounts of other metals with an organic extractant mixture containing both organic substituted phosphoric acid and organic substituted thiophosphinic acid. The phosphoric acids are preferably chosen from mono- and di-2-ethylhexylphosphoric acids and mixtures thereof, and the,phosphinic acids are preferably chosen from bis- 2, 4, 4-trimethylpentyl mono- and di- thiophosphinic acids. The use of an extractant mixture of the dithiophosphinic acid with mono- and di-2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acids or an extractant mixture of the dithiophosphinic acid with di-2-ethylhexylphosphoric acid is preferred. The pH during zinc extraction is controlled at a value in the range of about 1.3 to 5. Control of pH is carried out either by neutralization or by acid extraction with an organic amine-type~extractant. The acid content of the feed solution may be reduced by neutralization or acid removal by dialysis. The solvent extraction of zinc or zinc and acid from feed solution may be carried out co-, counter- or cross-currently in one or more stages. The preferred extraction method is dual- circuit, side-by-side, simultaneous zinc and acid extraction. The use of the mixed extractant for zinc is more effective than extraction with the component extractants by themselves.
Cominco Ltd.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Teck Cominco Metals Ltd.
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