Thiosulfate leaching of gold from waste mobile phones

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 178, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 1115-1119

  Ha, Vinh Hung ^a   Lee, Jae chun ^b   Jeong, Jinki ^b   Hai, Huynh Trung ^a   Jha, Manis K ^c  

^a HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Gold; Mobile phone; PCBs; Recycling; Thiosulfate leaching

Indexed keywords

CONTACT TIME; COPPER SULFATE; CYANIDE LEACHING; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GOLD EXTRACTION; HAZARDOUS SYSTEMS; THIOSULFATE LEACHING; THIOSULFATE SOLUTION; WASTE MOBILE PHONE;

AMMONIA; COPPER; CYANIDES; GOLD; LEACHING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

AMMONIA; COPPER SULFATE; GOLD; THIOSULFATE;

AMMONIA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; CYANIDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOLD; LEACHING; PCB; RECYCLING; THIOSULFATE; TOXICITY; WASTE;

ARTICLE; BIOLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METAL RECOVERY; MOBILE PHONE; RECYCLING; TREND STUDY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CELLULAR PHONE; COPPER; GOLD; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; KINETICS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THIOSULFATES;

EID: 77951498225     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.01.099     Document Type: Article

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