Preferential leaching of cobalt, nickel and copper from cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts with ammoniacal solutions using ammonium thiosulfate and ammonium sulfite as reducing agents

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 111-121

  Niinae, M ^a   Komatsu, N ^a   Nakahiro, Y ^a   Wakamatsu, T ^a   Shibata, J ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; COBALT; COPPER; HYDROMETALLURGY; LEACHING; NICKEL; PH; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

AMMONIACAL SOLUTIONS; AMMONIUM SULFITE; AMMONIUM THIOSULFATE; FERROMANGANESE CRUSTS; PREFERENTIAL LEACHING; REDUCING AGENTS;

MANGANESE NODULES;

EID: 0029733392     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-386X(94)00085-H     Document Type: Article

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