Cyanide and copper recovery from barren solution of the Merrill Crowe process

José R. Parga, Jesús L. Valenzuela, J. A. Diaz

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Abstract

This paper is a brief overview of the role of inducing the nucleated precipitation of copper and cyanide in a flashtube serpentine reactor, using sodium sulfide as the precipitate and sulfuric acid as pH control. The results showed that pH had a great effect on copper cyanide removal efficiency and the optimum pH was about 3 to 3.5. At this pH value copper cyanide removal efficiency could be achieved above 97 and 99%, when influent copper concentration ions were 650 and 900 ppm respectively. In this process the cyanide associated with the copper, zinc, iron cyanide complexes are released as HCN gas under strong acidic conditions, allowing it to be recycled back to the cyanidation process as free cyanide.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationREWAS 2013
Subtitle of host publicationEnabling Materials Resource Sustainability - Held During the TMS 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition
PublisherMinerals, Metals and Materials Society
Pages287-294
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781627489348
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
EventREWAS 2013: Enabling Materials Resource Sustainability - TMS 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition - San Antonio, TX, United States
Duration: 3 Mar 20137 Mar 2013

Publication series

NameTMS Annual Meeting

Conference

ConferenceREWAS 2013: Enabling Materials Resource Sustainability - TMS 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio, TX
Period3/03/137/03/13

Keywords

  • Copper recovery
  • Cyanide recovery
  • Precipitation copper

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