Utilisation of steel slags as neutralising agents in biooxidation of a refractory gold concentrate and their influence on the subsequent cyanidation

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 541-547

  Gahan, Chandra Sekhar ^a   Sundkvist, Jan Eric ^a,b   Engström, Fredrik ^a   Sandström, Åke ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Boliden Mineral AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biooxidation; Cyanidation; EAF slag; Ladle refining slag; Neutralisation

Indexed keywords

BIO-OXIDATION; CYANIDATION; EAF SLAG; LADLE REFINING SLAG; NEUTRALISATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CYANIDES; EXPERIMENTS; GOLD; LADLE METALLURGY; LADLES; LEACHING; LIME; LIMESTONE; MINERALS; OPERATING COSTS; OXIDATION; REFINING; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; STEEL SCRAP; SULFUR;

SLAGS;

CYANIDE; GOLD; SILVER; STEEL;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GOLD; NEUTRALIZATION; OXIDATION; SLAG; STEEL; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; BIOOXIDATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRODUCT RECOVERY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SLAG; STEADY STATE;

EID: 79952536755     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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