C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 22 – B
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
22
B
C22B 3/00 (2006.01) C22B 3/44 (2006.01) C22B 15/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2306015
A method of purifying an acid leaching solution obtained by processing hydrometallurgically material that contains valuable metals and also Fe3+ and Fe2+, and possibly also arsenic in solution. The major part of the Fe3+- content and the arsenic is precipitated out in a first stage, by adding pH-elevating agent to the leaching solution. The precipitate formed in the first precipitation stage is extracted from the solution and removed from the process. The solution is oxidised in a second precipitation stage while adding a further pH-elevating agent for oxidation of Fe2+ and precipitation of resultant Fe3+ and any arsenic still present. The resultant precipitate and any residual solid pH-elevating agent are then extracted from the solution and returned in the process to more acid conditions, and the thus purified solution is then processed to win its valuable metal content in a manner per se. The pH is suitably raised during the first stage to a value in the range of 2.2-2.8, and in the second stage to a value in the range of 3.0-4.5. The oxidising process in the second stage is suitably effected by injecting air into the solution and by preferably using lime or limestone as the pH- elevating agent. Solid material extracted from the second stage is returned beneficially to the first stage. Some of the solid material taken from each precipitation stage can be recycled within respective stages as a nucleating agent.
Boliden Mineral Ab
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
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