Fast dissolution of nickel from a lizardite-rich saprolitic laterite by sulphuric acid at atmospheric pressure

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 171-175

  Luo, Wei ^a   Feng, Qiming ^a   Ou, Leming ^a   Zhang, Guofan ^a   Lu, Yiping ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lizardite; Mineral characterization; Nickel; Saprolitic laterite; Sulphuric acid leach

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ADSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DISSOLUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KAOLINITE; LEACHING; METEOROLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SOILS; THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS SILICAS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; LEACHING TIMES; LIQUID TO SOLID RATIOS; LIZARDITE; MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS; NICKEL DISSOLUTIONS; REACTION TEMPERATURES; SAPROLITIC LATERITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SULPHURIC ACID LEACH; SULPHURIC ACIDS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 58149117960     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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