Towards a more environmentally friendly process for gold: models on gold adsorption onto activated carbon from ammoniacal thiosulfate solutions

Desalination

Volumn 211, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 58-63

  Navarro, Patricio ^a   Vargas, Cristian ^a   Alonso, Manuel ^b   Alguacil, Francisco Jose ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Ammoniacal thiosulfate; Carbon; Gold; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; LEACHING; LIGANDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL COMPLEXES;

AMMONIACAL THIOSULFATE; FLEMING MODEL; GOLD EXTRACTION;

GOLD ORE TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; LEACHING; LIGANDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL COMPLEXES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CYANIDE; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTION METHOD; GOLD; LEACHING; LIGAND; MODELING; ORE DEPOSIT; THIOSULFATE;

EID: 34248995233     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2006.03.590     Document Type: Article

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