Recovery of copper cyanide from waste cyanide solution by LIX 7950

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-195

  Xie, Feng ^a   Dreisinger, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Copper; Cyanide effluent; Guanidine; Solvent extraction

Indexed keywords

CASE HARDENING; COPPER; CYANIDES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; METAL RECOVERY; SMELTING; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SOLVENTS; ZINC;

COPPER CYANIDES; COPPER EXTRACTIONS; COPPER LOADINGS; CYANIDATION; CYANIDE SOLUTIONS; EXTRACTANT; FREE CYANIDES; GUANIDINE; METAL CYANIDES; MOLAR RATIOS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; THIOCYANATE IONS; THIOSULFATE IONS; VOLUME OF SOLUTIONS;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 58049162151     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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