Untangling galvanic and passivation phenomena induced by sulfide minerals on precious metal leaching using a new packed-bed electrochemical cyanidation reactor

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 101-111

  Azizi, Abdelaaziz ^a   Petre, Catalin Florin ^b   Olsen, Caroline ^b   Larachi, Faïçal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b COREM Research Center ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrochemistry; Galvanic interactions; Gold and silver cyanidation; Packed bed reactor; Passivation; Sulfide minerals; Sulfur and cyanicide speciation

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; CYANIDATION; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR; GALVANIC CONTACT; GALVANIC COUPLES; GALVANIC CURRENT; GALVANIC INTERACTION; GOLD AND SILVER; GOLD AND SILVER CYANIDATION; GOLD LEACHING; LEACHING RATES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PACKED-BED REACTOR; POSITIVE EFFECTS; ROTATING DISC; ROTATING DISC ELECTRODE; SULFIDE LAYERS;

ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC REACTORS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; INDUSTRY; LEACHING; MINERALS; ORES; PACKED BEDS; PASSIVATION; POWDER METALS; PRECIOUS METALS; QUARTZ; ROTATION; SILVER; SULFUR; ZINC SULFIDE;

GOLD;

EID: 79953244974     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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