A review of chloride assisted copper sulfide leaching by oxygenated sulfuric acid and mechanistic considerations

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 21-32

  Senanayake, G ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chalcocite; Chloride effect; Covellite; Kinetics; Mechanism; Sulfuric acid oxygen leaching

Indexed keywords

APPARENT RATE CONSTANT; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; CHALCOCITE; CHLORIDE EFFECT; COPPER LEACHING; COPPER SULFIDES; COVELLITE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; HYDROGEN IONS; LINEAR CORRELATION; MASS TRANSPORT; MIXED LIGAND COMPLEXES; PEAK POTENTIALS; REACTION MECHANISM; REACTION ORDERS; REACTION PATHS; SHRINKING PARTICLES; SOLID PHASIS; SOLID SURFACE; STABILITY CONSTANTS; VOLTAMMOGRAMS;

ACIDS; ACTIVATION ENERGY; ARRHENIUS PLOTS; COMPLEXATION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; HYDROGEN; LEACHING; RATE CONSTANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFUR; SULFURIC ACID; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

EID: 67349107640     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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