Methods and devices for collecting inter-lift leach solutions
AssigneeFreeport Minerals Corporation
InventorsPaddy Craig, Jarid W. Gardner, Paola G. Barraza, William Duane Sanders, Etienne Gagne-Marchildon
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Abstract
A device and method for recovering a metal-bearing solution from a leaching system is provided. The method includes collecting, using the collector of a solution sampling device, a metal-bearing solution from a leaching system, storing, using the storage reservoir of the solution sampling device, the metal-bearing solution, pressurizing, using an air pressure line of the solution sampling device, the storage reservoir, and discharging, using a solution sampling line of the solution sampling device, the metal-bearing solution from the storage reservoir.
Claims7
A method for sampling a metal-bearing solution comprising:
- collecting, using a collector of a solution sampling device, a metal-bearing solution from a leaching system;
- storing, using a storage reservoir of the solution sampling device, the metal-bearing solution;
- pressurizing, using an air pressure line of the solution sampling device, the storage reservoir;
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- discharging, using a solution sampling line of the solution sampling device, the metal-bearing solution from the storage reservoir.
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