Gold and by-product recovery of critical elements from gold ores using deep eutectic solvent ionic liquids: BRIO
Gold and by-product recovery of critical elements from gold ores using deep eutectic solvent ionic liquids: BRIO
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使用低共熔溶剂离子液体从金矿石中回收金和副产品关键元素:BRIO
DOI:
10.1080/03717453.2016.1166639
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发表时间:
2016
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通讯作者:
Jenkin G
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作者:
Jenkin G
Gold ores, and concentrates from them, often contain high enrichments of scarce or critical elements such as Te, Bi and Sb, but there are few financial incentives for a company to recover these elements. They may be lost to tailings or roasted off (and so become an environmental liability), or can incur smelter penalties. Recovery of these elements, along with the gold, would add value and secure supply.Ionic liquids are anhydrous salts that are liquid at low temperature. They are powerful solvents and electrolytes with potential for high selectivity in both dissolution and recovery. Deep eutectic solvents are a form of ionic liquid that are mixtures of salts such as choline chloride with hydrogen-bond donors such as urea. These solvents are environmentally benign, yet chemically stable and, furthermore, the components are already produced in large quantities at low cost (Jenkin et al. 2015). Using a microleach technique employing an optical profiler we show that gold, as electrum, dissolves rapidly by oxidation with I2 in deep eutectic solvents at 50 C (at least 80x the maximum cyanidation rate at 25 C). Recovery of the gold by electrodeposition has been demonstrated (Abbott et al. 2015). In itself this is a potential environmentally-benign alternative to cyanidation for gold recovery. In addition, hessite (Ag2Te) dissolves as rapidly as electrum, whereas native tellurium, altaite (PbTe), tellurobismuthite (Bi2Te3) and stibnite (Sb2S3) also dissolve. Base metal sulphides such as galena and chalcopyrite dissolve slowly, whereas pyrite and sphalerite are insoluble. Thus there is good discrimination in dissolution rate between the base metal sulphides/pyrite gangue and the Au, Ag, Te, Bi and Sb minerals, suggesting the potential to recover all these elements from gold ores. Pyrite, and many other sulphides, are soluble by electrolysis in deep eutectic solvents. Thus inclusions of gold and other target minerals locked within pyrite could potentially be liberated by electrolysis for subsequent dissolution by oxidation.
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1.8
作者:
T. Alapieti;B. A. Filén;J. Lahtinen;M. M. Lavrov;V. F. Smolkin;S. N. Voitsekhovsky
通讯作者:
S. N. Voitsekhovsky
影响因子:
1.5
作者:
E. Sharkov;A. Chistyakov
通讯作者:
A. Chistyakov
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1993
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作者:
D. V. Rundkvist;F. Mitrofanov
通讯作者:
F. Mitrofanov