Thiourea leaching gold and silver from the printed circuit …

DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.01.026 Corpus ID: 115999; Thiourea leaching gold and silver from the printed circuit boards of waste mobile phones. @article{Li2012ThioureaLG, title={Thiourea leaching gold and silver from the printed circuit boards of waste mobile phones.}, author={Jing-ying Li and Xiu-li Xu and Wen-quan Liu}, journal={Waste …

Thermochemistry of thiocyanate systems for leaching gold and silver …

According to leaching kinetic studies the initial rate of gold leaching is slow, and not significantly dependent on thiocyanate (0.05–0.2 M) and ferric (0.1–1.0 g/L) concentrations.

An environmentally friendly process to selectively recover silver …

Another option for silver leaching is a process for sodium sulfite leaching-formaldehyde reducing, which is a quite common method in silver recovery in China (Song and Fu, 2012). ... A kinetic study that compares the leaching of gold in the cyanide, thiosulfate, and chloride systems. Metall. Mater. Trans. B, 32 (2001), pp. 979-986.

The leaching of gold, silver and their alloys in alkaline …

The leaching of gold and silver in a pH modified glycine solution in the presence of hydrogen peroxide was investigated. It was found that this lixiviant system can dissolve gold and/or silver under neutral and alkaline conditions at ambient to moderately elevated temperatures (23–60 °C).The gold leaching rate in solutions containing 0.5 M …

Heap Leaching of Gold and Silver Ores

Large-scale gold and silver heap leaching began with the first Cortez heap leach in 1969. While many projects have come and gone, Cortez is still going. Nevada was the "birthplace" of modern gold heap leaching in the late 1960s, and is only recently giving up its dominance of this technology. Other very large gold districts – notably the ...

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Some sedimentary minerals have attractive contents of gold and silver, like a sedimentary exhalative ore available in the eastern of Hidalgo in Mexico. The gold and silver contained represent an interesting opportunity for processing by non-toxic and aggressive leaching reagents like thiosulfate. The preliminary kinetic study indicated that the leaching …

Recycling of Gold and Silver from Electronic Waste—A Review

The efficiencies of metals such as gold, silver, and palladium from cyanide leaching systems, however, were 99%, 95%, and respectively (Ashiq, Kulkarni et al. 2019). Almost gold adsorption was achieved at a dose of 5 g/L of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and an initial gold concentration of 200 mg/L after 24 h of adsorption.

Leaching and recovery of gold from ore in cyanide-free glycine media

A gold ore sample originated from an epithermal deposit with a composition shown in Table 2 was used as a feed material in the leaching experiments. X-ray fluorescence and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES; Thermo Scientific iCAP 6000, USA) were used to determine the chemical composition of …

Leaching of Gold from an Oxide Gold Ore with …

The leaching behavior of gold from an oxide gold ore using copper–tartrate–thiosulfate solutions has been investigated. Experimental parameters, including temperature, initial pH, and concentrations of copper tartrate and thiosulfate, were systematically studied. The capability of gold leaching using copper–tartrate–thiosulfate …

Fluidized roasting-stage leaching of a silver and gold …

The extraction of silver from silver-bearing residue was investigated by using a choline chloride aqueous solution (ChCl-H 2 O solution). The results showed that 86.91% of silver in the residue was extracted at a liquid-solid ratio of 12–1, leaching temperature of 65 °C, molar ratio of ChCl to H 2 O of 1–4 and leaching time of 90 min. In ...

Leaching Gold and Silver with an Alternative System: Glycine …

When leaching silver and gold with thiosulfate, it is necessary to use an oxidizing agent (cupric, oxygen, ozone, persulfate, etc.), as the cupric ions and ammonia …

A systematic review of gold extraction: Fundamentals, …

The gold leaching reaction by thiosulfate without additives is shown in Eq. (4). (4) 4Au + 8S 2 O 3 2-+ O 2 + 2H 2 O → 4Au(S 2 O 3) 2 3-+ 4OH- ... The leaching of gold, silver and their alloys in alkaline glycine–peroxide solutions and their adsorption on carbon. Hydrometallurgy, 152 ...

Heap Leaching Gold & Silver Ores

Heap Leaching Gold & Silver Ores. Table of Contents. An investigation of a particle agglomeration technique as a means of increasing the percolation rate of leaching solutions through heaps of clayey or finely crushed, low-grade, gold and silver ores. Bench-scale and pilot-scale experiments conducted on different ores indicated that …

Cyanide Process

This method of making soluble gold is known as leaching. In the process of leaching, a dilute form of sodium cyanide is added to the ore containing the gold. Since gold is soluble after the leaching process, it is free to move through the membrane, while the rest of the ore cannot pass through the membrane. Lime is added to sodium cyanide to ...

Cyanide-free gold leaching in exceptionally mild chloride …

Cyanide-free mild chloride leaching was investigated. •. Gold could be recovered even at <520 mV vs. Ag/AgCl in carbon-in-chloride-leach mode. •. Copper was a stronger oxidant than iron in gold leaching. •. Gold was oxidized by in-situ dissolving impurities. •. Seawater contains enough chlorides to dissolve gold.

Leaching of Gold and Silver from Crushed Au-Ag Wastes

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.

Kinetic Investigation and Dissolution Behavior …

For selected experiments a gold disk containing 20 wt% silver was used to investigate the leaching behavior of a common gold alloy. The Ag20Au-disks were produced at the IME and are identical in ...

Gold Leaching Process

Gold Leaching Process. Many opportunities exist throughout the world for small cyanide plants, possibly using a Gold Leaching Process, both for production and pilot operations, especially …

Kinetic aspects of gold and silver leaching in …

THE DISSOLUTION OF GOLD COLLOIDS IN AQUEOUS THIOSULFATE SOLUTIONS. Xinmin Zhang. Chemistry. 2008. The kinetics of the dissolution of gold and silver colloids in ammoniacal thiosulfate solutions has been studied using oxygen, copper (II) or oxygenated copper (II) as oxidants at pH 9 - 11 and…. Expand.

Inhibition of lead solubilization during the leaching of gold …

The ammonia complex is necessary for gold and silver leaching (Wan, 1997, Fuentes-Aceituno et al., 2004). Therefore, the conditions that guarantee an adequate balance between both Cu(II) species, Cu(NH 3 ) 4 2+ and Cu(EDTA) 2−, are in the aforementioned pH range with a EDTA concentrations of approximately 0.025 M.

Gold and Silver Leaching by Cyanidation

To reduce the amount of cyanide destroyed, lime is added to the solution to maintain a "protective alkalinity." It is usual to keep this alkalinity at from ½ to 1½ lbs. per ton of solution. Lime has a further beneficial effect of hastening settlement of finely ground rock, or slimes, in thickeners, …

The Safe and Effective Use of Cyanide

In this process sodium cyanide, in a dilute solution of ranging from 100 ppm to 500 ppm or 0.01% to 0.05% cyanide, is used to selectively dissolve gold from ore. The two most common processes that use cyanide for gold recovery are heap leaching and milling, also known as carbon-in-leach (CIL).

Cyanide Gold Leaching: An ASGM Guide to Understanding …

10 interesting, and terrifying facts about cyanide: 1. Cyanide was used as a chemical weapon for the first time in World War I. 2. Low levels of cyanide are found in nature and in products we ...

Thiourea Silver Leaching

Figure 4 compares acidic thiourea and cyanide leaching of gold and silver. For the conditions employed and up to 60 min, the rate for the thiourea system is approximately an order of magnitude greater than …

A review of environmentally friendly gold lixiviants: …

Abstract. Gold is mainly extracted by cyanidation; however, cyanide is not only highly toxic to organisms but is also not a very effective lixiviant for refractory gold …

Exploring Non-ammoniacal Thiosulfate Gold Leaching and

The application of pressure oxidation (POX) followed by thiosulfate gold leaching is an efficient method used to extract gold from double refractory gold ores containing both sulfide and carbonaceous matter. This process is expected to result in high gold recovery rates, as it liberates gold from sulfides and eliminates the preg-robbing …

Review of gold leaching in thiosulfate-based solutions

Abstract. Numerous non-cyanide leaching lixiviants have been developed, among which thiosulfate is considered the most promising alternative to cyanide due to …

Leaching Gold and Silver with an Alternative System: …

An alternative system to cyanide as a leaching agent is presented for the recovery of gold and silver from cyanicide minerals. These minerals are characterized by the presence of copper and carbonaceous minerals in their composition, therefore increasing both the consumption of reagents and energy requirements for the …

A review of gold extraction using noncyanide lixiviants

Browner, and H.R. Nikraz, Effect of silver in thiosulfate leaching of gold-silver alloys in the presence of copper and ammonia relative to pure gold and silver, Miner. Process. Extr. Metall. Rev., 35(2014), No. 2, p. 136. Article CAS Google Scholar ...

A Review of Thiosulfate Leaching of Gold: Focus …

Thiosulfate leaching is a promising alternative to cyanidation, and the main hindrances for its wide commercial application are the high thiosulfate consumption and the difficult recovery of …

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The leaching behaviors of gold and silver from a complex sulfide concentrate in copper-tartrate-thiosulfate solutions were investigated in this paper. Experimental parameters, including temperature, initial …

Kinetic aspects of gold and silver leaching in …

The leaching of gold and silver in thiosulfate solutions containing copper and ammonia was studied using a rotating electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (REQCM). The REQCM allows the measurement of mass changes in situ, and thus, the leaching rate can be readily obtained for a wide range of solution concentrations. It was …

Leaching of Gold and Silver from Crushed Au-Ag Wastes

Up to 98 % of gold and 96 % of silver were recovered from gold- smith's waste after 60 minutes of leaching. In the case of ceramic waste, we achieved up to 98 % gold and 97 % silver ex- traction efficiency after only 45 minutes of leaching. In comparison with the classical cyanide leaching, thiourea leaching acts faster and …

Kinetic Investigation and Dissolution Behavior of …

51 Citations. 1 Altmetric. Metrics. Raising social awareness and environmental specifications on cyanide application force gold industry to search for alternative leaching reagents. Therefore,...

Kinetic aspects of gold and silver leaching in …

The REQCM was used to study the leaching of gold and silver in 0.4 M thiosulfate solutions containing 0.025 M copper and 0.44 M ammonia. Fig. 1 shows the kinetic plots, which represent the change in mass as a function of time. It can be seen that the mass of the electrode, m, decreases as the metal is leached, and this decrease can …

Review of gold leaching in thiosulfate-based solutions

The use of ammoniumâˆ'thiosulfate solutions to leach gold and silver from the oxidizing leaching residue of copper sulfide concentrates was reported by BEREZOWSKY and SEFTON in 1979 [25]. The authors claimed that the leaching rate of gold was higher than that by conventional cyanidation and halogen leaching method.