Specialized metallurgical processes – compositions for use therei – Processes – Free metal or alloy reductant contains magnesium
Patent
1978-07-19
1979-04-17
Ozaki, G.
Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therei
Processes
Free metal or alloy reductant contains magnesium
75 99, 75109, 75120, 75121, 75101R, 423 41, C22B 1512
Patent
active
041498801
ABSTRACT:
Highly toxic metallurgical waste materials from copper smelting and/or refining operations are processed on a cyclic basis for recovering copper values therefrom while protecting the environment from contamination. The waste materials, usually smelter flue dust and/or refinery sludge containing copper values and principally arsenic, bismuth, lead, antimony, and cadmium, as toxic values, with or without added sulfuric acid, are reacted in an autoclave at an overpressure atmosphere of O.sub.2. The resulting solution, pregnant with copper and still containing a significant amount of arsenic, i.e. from about 0.5 to about 2.0 grams per liter, is subjected to copper cementation on metallic iron to recover copper and to provide iron values in the solution while substantially eliminating residual toxic constituents, surprisingly without the evolution of arsine gas. The copper-barren but iron-containing solution is then recycled to the leaching step. The cement copper precipitate is smelted along with copper ore concentrates, while the solid residue from the leaching step is discharged to a tailings pond or the like as an environmentally safe, insoluble residue.
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Prater John D.
Wells Barry A.
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Ozaki G.
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