Extraction and recovery of gold
AssigneeCRA Services Limited
InventorCraig C. Kenna
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Abstract
A process for the hydrometallurgical recovery of gold from gold-bearing material comprising the step of treating gold-bearing material with an acidic lixiviant solution containing thiourea and ferric ions, characterized in that the said solution also includes a complexing agent for ferric ions, whereby consumption of thiourea is significantly reduced. The complexing agent may be selected from the group consisting of di- and tri-carboxylic acids, phosphoric acid and phosphate salts, thiocyanates, fluorides, fluosilicic acid and fluosilicate salts, EDTA and EDTA salts, and mixtures thereof.
Claims6
A process for the hydrometallurgical recovery of gold from gold-bearing material wherein a gold-bearing material is treated with an acidic lixiviant solution containing thiourea and ferric ion to dissolve gold from said gold-bearing material, the improvement comprising including in the lixiviant solution used in said dissolution step a complexing agent for ferric ions.
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