Nickel and cobalt precipitation from sulphate leach liquor using MgO pulp as neutralizing agent

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1204-1211

  Oustadakis, P ^a   Agatzini Leonardou, S ^a   Tsakiridis, P E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydrometallurgy; pH control; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COBALT; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HYDROMETALLURGY; LEACHING; NICKEL; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PH EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

NEUTRALIZING AGENT; PH CONTROL; PRECIPITATES; SULPHURIC ACID;

MAGNESIA;

EID: 33747808903     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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