Effect of thiosulphate salts on ammoniacal thiosulphate leaching of gold

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 120-126

  Feng, D ^a   Van Deventer, J S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gold; Ion pair; Leaching; Sulphide; Thiosulphate salts

Indexed keywords

COPPER SULPHIDES; DISSOLUTION BEHAVIOUR; EXTRACTION RATE; GOLD EXTRACTION; GOLD LEACHING; GOLD ORES; ION PAIR FORMATION; ION-PAIR; LOWER SOLUTION; SODIUM THIOSULPHATE; SULPHIDE; SULPHIDE CONTENT; SULPHIDE MINERALS; SULPHIDE ORES; THIOSULPHATE LEACHING; THIOSULPHATES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; GOLD; IONS; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORES; SALTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

GOLD ORE TREATMENT;

EID: 78249274921     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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