Hydrometallurgical extraction accounts for about 20% of total primary copper production. Most of this is produced by heap leaching. Heap leaching consists of trickling H2SO4-containing lixiviant ...
The heap leaching process has been widely used for recovering different metals since its first application at the end of the 1960s. In Chile, copper production via heap leaching has accounted for between 30 and 40% of annual copper production over the past 10 years. This level of production has been achieved through and supported by …
The drum agglomeration is considered as a pretreatment step for the heap leaching of copper and gold ores whereas the agglomeration of uranium and nickel ores has received less attention over the past years. The acceptance of binder application for acidic leaching systems is limited primarily due to the lack of acid-tolerant binders.
The GEOCOAT™ Process - A heap leaching process that is capable of bioleaching copper concentrates. It does this by coating the concentrate slurry onto a support rock, or substrate material, and stacking this coated material in a bioxidation heap. The support rock itself may be a low-grade copper ore.
Agglomeration through geopolymerization can produce agglomerates suitable for acid heap leaching, which can solve the permeability problem of low-grade …
If copper recovery depends on (1/d p) and the copper leaching rate depends on (1/d p) 2, leaching of ROM ore in dumps should be impossible, or at least so slow and marginal as to not be profitable. And yet dump leaching of copper secondary sulphides is practiced widely, with good recoveries and at rates rapid enough to be …
In 1970s, to ameliorate the undesirable leaching condition and obtain better extraction efficiency, the agglomeration and its processing controls were firstly mentioned in Nevada of the United States (Johnson and Roberto, 1997; Potter, 1981).As Fig. 2 shows, the basic operating procedure of agglomerated heap could be described that: 1) the …
After passing the heaps, the solutions are sent again for cementation. Copper recovery is about 80%. In Uzbekistan, the heap leaching method is planned to be applied to the Kalmakyr deposit dump's poor ores. Copper should be in ore in the form of easily leachable compounds (chalcosine or chalcanthite—natural copper cuprous or …
Heap leaching is practised all over the world for three key applications: cyanide leaching of gold ores, acid leaching for copper oxide ores and oxidative acid …
The nominal heap height for Lady Annie Operations is 6 metres. Each heap is approximately 60 to 70 metres wide and may contain between 200,000 and 300,000 tonnes of ore. Heap leach solution is irrigated over the ore and percolates by gravity through the ore to be collected at the base of the pad in a collection drainage system.
Ore-containing copper oxides or secondary copper sulfides are easily treated by heap leaching or heap bioleaching technologies, respectively. The use of heap leaching for primary copper mineralization is now advancing rapidly with the goal of avoiding the costly grinding necessary to prepare these ores for flotation. The key …
Leaching copper and precious metals from fragmented ore in heaps, mine stripping waste dumps, and caved workings is rapidly expanding in the western United States, and its economic value now...
The heap leaching of copper bearing ores is improved by using sodium nitrate as an oxidizing chemical reactive in a sulphuric acid leaching solution. In particular, the ore is crushed to <6 mm and stored in heaps less than twelve meters high. The heaps are irrigated with a dilute solution consisting essentially of sulphuric acid and sodium nitrate …
There are three basic approaches to commercial copper heap leaching—run-of-mine, dedicated pad, and on-off pad leaching, with variables that include crushing, …
Heap permeability As the foregoing analysis has illustrated, the slow rate of recovery from heaps is a major drawback of this technology in that it requires substantial inventories of ore under leach. A typical generic copper heap leach curve versus time is shown in Fig. 4 — this suggest that 60–70% extraction can be achieved quite rapidly ...
Copper heap leaching is a rate-dependent process sensitive to copper mineralogy (copper oxides > secondary sulfides > hypogene sulfides), driven by the pH of the leach solution, the activity of ...
With the aim of intensification, improving economic efficiency, and controlling sulfide ore heap bacterial leaching features and leaching regimes are studied for lean copper-nickel ore with the participation of a bioreagent-oxidant prepared by iron-oxidizing micro-organisms and concentrated adsorption immobilization in a separate …
In this study, weak acid in the curing and leaching stages of copper ore was incorporated, and we analyzed its effect on the dissolution of copper and final impurities. The weak acid corresponds to a wastewater effluent from sulfuric acid plants produced in the gas treatment of copper smelting processes. This effluent is basically water with high acidity (pH-value …
The copper ore sample used for agglomeration experiments was from the Zaldivar heap leach operations in Chile. The copper grade and mineralogy of the ore sample are shown in Table 1.The ore consists of copper sulfide, oxide and silicate minerals (chalcocite, brochantite and chrysocolla).
Key words: low-grade ores; copper minerals; column leaching. 1. Introduction The highest quantities of copper, lead and zinc in the world are obtained by sulphide ore ... Dump, heap and in-situ leaching are the most common hydrometallurgical methods for copper recovery from these raw materials on an industrial scale [16-18]. A considerable
Heap leaching from low-grade ores has contributed to the total global production of copper, gold, silver, and uranium . Heap leaching has also been considered for zinc and nickel and more lately for …
Using reactor leaching, an 85% copper dissolution was obtained using pretreatment stage. Without this pretreatment, only 55% copper dissolution was obtained. ... This ore is the most important source of iodine in the world and is processed mainly by heap leaching using water as a leaching agent. Heap leaching of caliche ore is …
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The treatment of copper ores, both oxides and sulfides by means of flotation, hydrometallurgy or other processes has been well established for many years. Flotation has been applied generally to the treatment of sulfide ores, both in small and large scale operations. Hydrometallurgical methods alone or in combination with flotation have …
Crushed ore heap leaching involves reducing ROM ore to a predetermined optimal target size distribution, sometimes with topsizes as small as 12.5 mm (0.5 in.) or even finer through ... and copper ores, whereas heap leaching has been applied to many different minerals including copper, gold, silver, ura-nium, vanadium, zinc, nickel, and cobalt ...
In the 1970–90s, it was suggested that different additives be used to intensify the sulfide copper ore leaching process with acid solutions, such as sulfuric and nitric iron (III) and ammonium salts ... IC C01G 3/00 Acid Heap Leaching of Copper Ores with Addition of Fluoroaliphatic Surfactants/Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. ...
Heap leaching is a low-cost technology used in industrial mining to recover precious metals such as gold and uranium, along with several other highly sought after metals like copper, from their primary …
In heap and dump leaching of run-of-mine chalcopyrite ores, relatively rapid leaching rates decrease as a function of time and overall copper recoveries seldom exceed 50%. Nevertheless, there are processing and economic reasons why the development of whole ore bioleaching is the preferred option for low-grade chalcopyrite …
Traditional processing of copper sulphide ore bodies utilises flotation to produce a saleable copper-rich sulphide concentrate. Cyprium's management team has developed unique intellectual property relating to sulphide heap leach processing methodology, an atypical alternative method to economically extract copper from sulphide ores.
Oxidized copper ore from the Tonglushan Copper-iron Mine, low in copper grade and abundant in mud and alkali gangue, is difficult to concentrate. Apart from copper, the ore also contains gold and ...