4C Purification of Copper by Electrolysis extraction from ore above The impure copper from a smelter is cast into a block to form the positive anodeThe cathode is made of previously purified copperThese are dipped into an electrolyte of copperII sulphate solution When the dc electrical current is passed through the solution electrolysis takes place
4C Purification of Copper by Electrolysis extraction from ore above The impure copper from a smelter is cast into a block to form the positive anodeThe cathode is made of previously purified copperThese are dipped into an electrolyte of copperII sulphate solution When the dc electrical current is passed through the solution electrolysis takes place
Get PriceA method of recovering copper from a copper bearing sulphide mineral which includes the steps of subjecting the slurry to a bioleaching process supplying a feed gas which contains in excess of 21 oxygen by volume to the slurry and recovering copper from a bioleach residue of the bioleaching
Get PriceAn AIR sparging CFD model for heap bioleaching of coppersulphide102 The leaching process occurs as a result of infiltration of sulphuric acid into the heap which forms a film over the ore particles Oxygen in the air phase reacts chemically with the ferric ions in the acid and copper sulphide in
Get PriceAn electromagnet for removal of tramp iron is placed over the feed conveyor to Copper Sulfide Flotation Reagents Inquire Now iron ore electro magnetic flotation miningbmwcom iron ore electro magnetic flotation Copper extraction techniques high grade oxide and sulphide ore being mined in lm extension pit only 12 metres from
Get PriceApr 18 2016 Problem with gold recovery from sulphide ore How may a mill get the maximum recovery of gold from a sulphide ore at the least capital cost and at the same time obtain the highest net returnThis latter point is most important In many cases a gold mill using an allcyanide flowsheet with fine grinding of all the ore will report very low gold content in the tailings particularly on an
Get PriceCopper can be extracted from its ore by Underground sinking a vertical shaft into the Earth to an appropriate depth and driving horizontal tunnels into the ore Open pit 90 of ore is mined by this method Ores near the surface can be quarried after removal of the surface layers
Get PriceFeb 21 2014 The bioleaching rates reach their highest point in sulfide copper and chalcopyrite with a pulp density of 5 and 10 respectively Column flotation experiments of lowgrade copper sulfide ores show that the bioleaching recovery reaches nearly 45 after 75 days
Get PriceJan 01 2013 This research work aims at controlling in an orderly manner the biological processes that occur in a heap of copper sulphide mineralsbearing flotation concentrate In a bioleaching heap without external control it is observed that mesophile microorganisms are acting in the most external areas of the heap ie in areas where there is more heat exchange and the moderate and extreme thermophilic ones act in the inner parts of the heap
Get PriceJan 06 2012 Bioleaching of a Copper Sulphide Concentrate by Two Different Strains of Acidophilic Bacteria K D Mehta B D Pandey MNP Division CSIRNational Metallurgical Laboratory NML Jamshedpur 831 007 India Abstract Two strains of acidophilic Thiobacillus generae one isolated from the water of a copper mine and another a
Get PriceJan 06 2012 Two strains ofacidophilic Thiobacillus generae one isolated from the water of a copper mine and another a pure culture have been used for the processing of a sulphidic copper concentrate with 1413 Cu 1004 Ni 033 Co 071 Mo 228 Fe 364 S and 172 SiO 2 generated at UCIL Jaduguda India The concentrate has chalcopyrite and pentlandite as the major phases along
Get PriceJul 12 2021 The Complete Collection of Copper Beneficiation Reagents In the flotation process of the copper mine the use of flotation reagents to change the surface properties of the mineral is a flexible and effective way to control the flotation behavior It is also an important reason why flotation can be widely used in mineral processing
Get PriceJun 22 2019 In vat leaching oxide or oxide sulfide ores are crushed and then leached in large vats with prepared leach solutions Following a rinsing cycle the leached residue is discarded or further treated by flotation to recover the sulfide copper minerals Each of these methods has its advantages and disadvantages
Get PriceMay 07 2019 Compared with the traditional pyrometallurgical process copper bioleaching has distinctive advantages of high efficiency and lower cost enabling efficiently extracts of valuable metal resources from copper sulfides Moreover during longterm industrial applications of bioleaching many regulatory enhancements and technological methods are used to accelerate the interfacial reactions
Get PriceMay 15 2013 Application of bioleaching to copper mining in Chile Juan Carlos Gentina 1 Fernando Acevedo 1 1 Pontificia Universidad Cat lica de Valpara so Facultad de Ingenier a Escuela de Ingenier a Bioqu mica Valpara so Chile Corresponding author jgentinaucvcl Keywords dumps heap leaching hydrometallurgy leaching microorganisms pyrometallurgy
Get PriceMay 22 2017 cyanide chemistry gold extractionthe copper sulphide precipitated method for the extraction of goldthe application of bioleaching to base metal sulfides bioleaching technology for the extraction of base metals from sulfide ores and heap bioleaching of secondary copper sulfide ores has been conducted inlaboratory extraction of copper from chalcocite by roasting 24 jun 2019 in a
Get PriceNominal prices of copper are quite variable according to the world economical situation and the market demand In the present decade copper price has been rather high on the range of US3538 per pound Processing of copper minerals by bioleaching Bioleaching of copper has occurred naturally since many centuries ago Indications exist that
Get PriceNov 11 2019 Compared with the traditional pyrometallurgical process copper bioleaching has distinctive advantages of high efficiency and lower cost enabling efficiently extracts of valuable metal resources from copper sulfides Moreover during longterm industrial applications of bioleaching many regulatory enhancements and technological methods are used to accelerate the interfacial reactions
Get PriceThe effects of several variables on the column bioleaching of copper sulphide ore have been investigated The copper ore contained chalcopyrite as the main sulfide minerals and bornite and chalcocite as the minor minerals The experiment was carried out using benchscale column leach reactors designed in Key Lab of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education which were inoculated with the
Get PriceThe feasibility of bioleaching two Chilean copper ores under saline conditions was evaluated by batch tests Total copper content of the ores were 387 and 164 respectively Lower ore mineralogy was comprised of atacamite chrysocolla bornite chalcopyrite chalcocite and minor pyrite while Zaldivars included brochantite chrysocolla chalcocite and pyrite Mixed bacterial cultures
Get PriceThe further development of bioleaching as a hydrometallurgical alternative to smelting for the processing of copper sulphide concentrates is now being considered by research centers and copper producers around the worldThe major challenge for copper sulphide bioleaching is the successful treatment of chalcopyrite Lawrence and Poulin 1996
Get PriceThe invention relates to a method for the extraction of metals from copper sulphide andor copper iron sulphide ores with microbiological and chemicaltype leaching steps for dissolution of the metals which comprises the following steps 1 In a conversion step prior to the leaching steps the ores are converted to covellite pyrites and admixed sulphides by the addition of sulphur and 2
Get PriceThey explored the catalytic mechanism of silver sulfide in enargite bioleaching adding 004 silver sulfide to the enargite reactor For this 10 7 cellsmL of each strain was inoculated in a basal salts medium containing 2 w v enargite particle size P80 was 90 m and operated at pH 2 and 45 C
Get PriceThis paper investigated the bioleaching of different copper sulphide minerals The bioleaching experiments show that the order of the copper bioleaching rates of four copper sulphide minerals regardess of whether the optimum conditions or the initial ferrous iron concentration of 0 g L 1 was identical djurleite bornite covellite chalcopyrite
Get PriceThis work aimed at approaching the use of concentrated mesophile and thermophile microorganisms moderate and extreme ones in leaching process of copper sulphides flotation concentrate containing approximately 30 of bornite Cu5FeS4 and 70 of chalcopyrite CuFeS2 for extracting copper The objective of the bioleaching tests was to
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