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Hydrometallurgy 48 Ž1998. 113-124 An innovative thiourea gold leaching process S. Ubaldini ), P. Fornari, R. Massidda, C. Abbruzzese Istituto per il Trattamento dei Minerali del C.N.R., Via Bolognola 7, 00138 Rome, Italy Received 10 July 1997; accepted 6 November 1997 Abstract The aim of this experimental work was devoted to the preliminary ...
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The Effect of Manganese Dioxide and Sodium Sulphite on Thiourea Leaching of a Gold Ore It was shown that manganese dioxide could be used as an oxidant in acid thiourea leaching of a gold ore. Manganese dioxide could generate high redox potentials and was as effective as hydrogen peroxide in the leaching process.
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The invention discloses a method for gold leaching by thiourea. When the gold is leached by an acid thiourea solution, aiming at the different gold-containing mine resources, such as the oxidized ore, and the ore pulp or the roasted sand which is obtained after by the hardy-leached sulphide ore is pretreated (oxidized under oxygen pressure, biologically oxidized or roasted) by means of ...
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The influence of particle size, thiourea and Fe³⁺ concentrations and temperature on the leaching of gold and silver from waste mobile phones was investigated. Gold extraction was found to be enhanced in a PCBs particle size of 100 mesh with the solutions containing 24g/L thiourea and Fe³⁺ concentration of 0.6% under the room temperature.
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To collect the leached gold silver are possible with the use of chlorine solutions at the solution from each leach column was run through a various pH values. second set of columns each filled with 300 g of fresh coconut activated carbon to extract the gold. Following the completion of the experiments the loaded carbon was pulverised and sampled.
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Leaching Gold-Silver Ores With Sodium Cyanide and Thiourea Under Comparable Conditions R.I. 9181 (1988) 13 p. Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona.
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Beside pretreatments, direct gold recovery from carbonaceous gold ores or concentrates with thiourea or CIL leach process is also feasible. Finally, some critical comments have been made to all the major pretreatment processes; and some recommendations for further R&D efforts have been suggested.
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Recovery of gold from solution by reduction-precipitation ... 17. A process as claimed in claim 13, wherein the acidic solution is a leach solution obtained in the final recovery step of the acidified thiourea leaching of gold ore or concentrate in the presence of carbon followed by elution of the carbon by thiosulfate or thiocyanate.
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GOLD LEACHING USING THIOUREA. Thiourea, CSN(NH2)2 is an organic compound which dissolves easily I acid solution in a stable molecular form. Gold dissolves in acidic thiourea solution to form a stable complex, 2Au + 4CS(NH2)2 + 2Fe3+ = 2Au(CS(NH2)2)2+ + 2Fe2+ In the thiourea reaction, ferric iron is used as an oxidizing agent, whereas the cyanide process uses oxygen from the air, dissolved in ...
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CLS almost always recovers 10% to 25% more gold than thiourea. Table of Contents. Chapter 1 CLS Easy Leach ... In order to determine the maximum size to which an ore may be ground for CLS leaching, thiourea leaching, or any kind of leaching, a number of tests should be run. One can rough grind to -40 mesh or even -20 mesh and run several CLS 2 ...
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Abstract: Cyanide has been the universal reagent for gold leaching on counts of higher stability, lower cost and better understood chemistry. However, its high toxicity and slow leaching kinetics have called for research into alternative leaching reagents, of which thiosulfate and thiourea appear to be promising.
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thiourea and iodide leaching systems due to the lower standard redox potential of their complexes with gold and stability of the resulting complexes in the solution. The standard potential of the half-reaction of gold in the solution with thiourea and iodide is E0 AuTU2 +=0.38-0.42V and E0 AuI +=0.53-0.57V respectively [5- 7].
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The leaching efficiency of copper was approximately 95% when using a lixiviant composed of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, and the leaching efficiencies of gold were approximately 59, 95 and 95% by using thiourea, thiosulfate and aqua regia, respectively.
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Compound: Thiourea, homopolymer CAS Common Chemistry 2.3.3 Deprecated CAS 1032826-45-1, 1429623-74-4, 1803177-22-1 ChemIDplus 2.3.4 European Community (EC) Number 200-543-5 European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) 2.3.5 ICSC Number 0680 ILO International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSC) 2.3.6 NSC Number 5033 2.3.7 RTECS Number YU2800000
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Recovery of Silver, Gold, and Lead from a Complex Sulfide Ore Using Ferric Chloride, Thiourea, and Brine Leach Solutions Volume 9022 of Report of investigations: Authors: Richard G. Sandberg, J. L. Huiatt: Contributor: United States. Bureau of Mines: Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1986: Original from: the ...
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The thiourea leaching of gold and silver from electronic waste, goldsmith's waste and ceramic waste using crushing as the pretreatment step was investigated. For electronic waste, it was possible to achieve 97 % gold and 94 % silver recovery within 120 minutes of thiourea leaching. Up to 98 % of gold and 96 % of silver were recovered from gold-
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Optimum conditions were an ambient temperature leach near pH 1.0 utilizing 100-200 kg/t thiourea and 5 kg/t ferric sulfate for 8 to 24 hours. The Carlin carbonaceous ore proved to be more amenable to leaching with thiourea solutions than standard cyanidation. Recoveries of up to 60 percent were attained compared to 3 percent with cyanide treatment.
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Under reagent in the column leach all samples showed a rapid extraction response to the reagent solution with gold recoveries between 52% and 70% being achieved after only 7 days of leaching.
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Following this step, the solution is placed in contact with 10 grams of sulfide concentrate which contains approximately 8 wt. % silver and 0.08 wt. % gold for 60 hours. After this time, 95% of the original thiourea was intact and more than 94% of the silver and 65% of the gold contained in the mineral were leached.
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In this study, we investigated two thiourea leach-ing processes for effective recovery of Ag and Au from flue dust. The effects of various parameters on the process, such as leaching time (1-10 h), thiourea ... Recovery of Gold and Silver from Secondary Sources of Electronic Waste Processing by Thiourea Leaching 1617. Fe 2(SO 4)
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Therefore, thiourea leaching can extract gold and silver from gold-bearing minerals that are difficult to treat by cyanidation. At the same time, the time of thiourea leaching is generally much ...
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Leaching of Gold in Acid Thiourea‐thiocyanate Solutions using Ferric Sulfate as Oxidant. Xiyun Yang. School of Metallurgical Science and Engineering, Central South University, Hunan 410083, China ... Direct leach approaches to Platinum Group Metal (PGM) ores and concentrates: A review, Minerals Engineering, 10.1016/j.mineng.2015.04.015, 78 ...
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There is currently much interest in how extraction of gold and silver from ores with acidic thiourea solution compares with extraction using alkaline cyanide solution. Agitation leaching tests were performed by the Bureau of Mines on 14 precious metal ores using sodium cyanide (NaCN) and thiourea [ (NH2)2CS] as extractants.
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The role of the formamidine is to oxidise the gold to form a gold-thiourea complex: 2Au + C2S2(NH)2(NH2)2 + 2CS(NH2)2 + 2H+ = 2Au(CS(NH2)2) 2+ Importantly, "formamidine acts as an oxidiser as well as a complexing agent, supplying about 50% of the ligands to the complexation" and due to this thiourea leaching of gold is faster than cyanide ...
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Because the leaching of gold in acidic thiourea solutions is a redox reaction, useful mechanistic information can be obtained by studying the electrochemistry of the constituent half-reactions. Therefore, this paper presents the results of a voltammetric study of a gold electrode in acidic thiourea solutions.
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The study had allowed identification of the effect of thiourea, oxidizer and acid concentration, leaching time, temperature and pulp density on gold dissolution in thiourea solution. The results showed that the vast majority of gold (93.6%) from the gold concentrate was dissolved in nitric acid solution with thiourea under the optimum conditions.
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To reduce the pH, thiourea leaching should be done in acidic medium so 30%-sulfuric acid is used. At first, because the highest percentage of minerals in samples contain carbonate minerals so a heating stage up to 500˚C was performed in furnace before leaching process (Laboratory furnace 2.5 lit). Table 1.
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The reaction for gold leaching in thiourea and ferric ion solutions can be written as: In the presence of redox couple, Fe,+ and Fe 2+, gold leaching in thiourea solution has been found to be up to four times faster than oxidation by air purging (Huyhua et ah, 1989). Deschenes and Ghali (1988) demonstrated the effect of ferric ion as an ...
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Aug 25, 2022gold leaching process due to the high rate of gold leaching with aci-dothioureation. Since Plaksin et al.1 and Priesler and Scortia2 leached gold by thiourea instead of cyanide in 1941, many reports on the dissolution of gold by thiourea have been published. Groe-newald3 noted that gold could be leached at a much greater rate by
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eBook ISBN 9780203747117 ABSTRACT Gold has been traditionally extracted from ores by leaching with an alkaline cyanide solution. However, certain characteristics and drawbacks of cyanidation process have stimulated research into alternative processes. A number of non-cyanide reagents have been tried for the dissolution of gold.
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Gold Recovery from its Flotation Concentrate using Acidic Thiourea Leaching and Organosilicon Polymer. International Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources 2014, 20 (1), 29-34. DOI: 10.5188/ijsmer.20.29. ... A REVIEW OF GOLD LEACHING IN ACID THIOUREA SOLUTIONS. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 2006, 27 ...
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The leaching kinetics of Au in the selected slime was also investigated. The results showed that leaching reaches 93.48% after 20 h in the activated sample for 10 h at the temperature of 313.15 K and solvent including 60% (v/v) BmimHSO 4, 50 g/L thiourea, 1/15 g/ml pulp density, 25 g/L H 2 O 2, and an agitation speed of 400 rpm. Moreover, the ...
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02/07/1997· The thiourea leaching of gold and silver from the gold bearing silicate ore of the Hishikari mine Kagoshima, Japan was studied. The apparent activation energy of the extraction of gold and silver was smaller than that of the reaction rate of thiourea consumption by ferric iron.
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When the amount of potassium ferricyanide was 60g/L, the concentration of NaOH 0.2mol/L, the liquid-solid ratio 6:1 and the leaching process at room temperature lasted for 20h, the gold leaching rate reached 88.1%. If the leaching aid CaO 2 is added simultaneously, it can contribute to the gold leaching.
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The effect of ferric sulfate concentration on the gold leaching rate in the presence of thiourea and thiocyanate is shown in Fig.1. As can be observed, the gold leaching rate slightly increases with increasing ferric sulfate concentration from 0.0055 M to 0.022 M. Further increasing the ferric sulfate concentration to 0.055M has only a minor
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Leaching with a relatively concentrated thiourea solution (1MCS (NH 2) 2) resulted in 83% gold and 75% silver extraction in four hours. With the treated flue dust residue, gold extraction was about 60%. Gold and silver extraction with cyanide was sensitive to both cyanide concentration and oxidizing conditions.
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assayed. The results indicate that thiourea leaching performs (96.5% extraction at 16 hours) better than (96% extraction at 24 hours) cyanidation. Leaching The gold leaching cells were made of glass and plastic, with a 10 litre capacity at room temperature. The tests were made with ore crushed carefully to -2000 microns at the pH of desired level.
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Mar 15, 2022The process of gold leaching with thiourea requires an additional oxidant to maintain the oxidizing atmosphere. However, thiourea is easily decomposed to form formamidine disulfide under the conditions of high oxidation potential, as shown in reaction Eq. (2). (2)(SCN2H3)2 + 2H+ + 2e = 2SC (NH2)2; E(SCN2H3)2/SC (NH2)2 = 0.42 V
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High-resolution spectra of gold in flotation waste before thiourea leaching confirmed a presence of gold in an unbound form in oxidation state 0. The amount of gold in oxidation state 0 is 77.55%. The rest of the gold is in oxidation state +I. These results are in good agreement with Turner N.H., Single A.M.,1990. Fig. 2.
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Aug 9, 2022Application of the thiourea-Fe 3+ leaching system resulted in recovery of 16.4 ± 1.56 mg/kg of gold from the fine-grained PIR within 6 h of incubation. Due to high gold market prices, upscaling of the suggested technology can represent a suitable strategy for gold recovery from PIR and other MSWI residues. Introduction
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