Process for extracting bismuth from a bismuth-bearing material

Details Process for extracting bismuth from a bismuth-bearing material Process for extracting bismuth from a bismuth-bearing material

1978-06-07

1979-07-03

Rosenberg, P. D.

Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therei

Processes

Electrothermic processes

75 70, C22B 404

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041599047

ABSTRACT:
A process for the pyrometallurgical extraction of bismuth from a bismuth-bearing material (e.g., ores and concentrates of bismuth in the roasted or unroasted states), in an electric furnace with submerged electrodes in which the sulphur content of the charge constituted of the bismuth-bearing material is controlled so that a matte phase is produced having a bismuth content of between 3 and 20% by weight and a slag phase is produced which is separated from the matte. Under these conditions cheap fluxes (e.g., sand, limestone, iron oxide) can be used whereby the resulting slag has a relatively low corrosivity and high melting point (e.g., 1150.degree.-12000.degree. C.) without excessive losses of bismuth by volatilization.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1098854 (1914-06-01), Thum
patent: 2330307 (1943-09-01), O'Keefe
Newton, Extractive Metallurgy, p. 379, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1959).

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