Thiocyanate hydrometallurgy for the recovery of gold.: Part II: The leaching kinetics

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 113-114, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-18

  Li, Jinshan ^a   Safarzadeh, M Sadegh ^a   Moats, Michael S ^a   Miller, Jan D ^a   Levier, K Marc ^b   Dietrich, Meg ^b   Wan, Rong Yu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b a wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronoamperometry; Ferric ion; FTIR; Gold; Kinetics; Leaching; Linear sweep voltammetry; Thiocyanate

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; CHRONOAMPEROMETRY; COPPER METALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME KINETICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD; GOLD METALLOGRAPHY; HYDROMETALLURGY; IRON COMPOUNDS; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; KINETICS; LEACHING; METAL IONS; METALS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SILVER METALLOGRAPHY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLTAMMETRY;

ANODIC REACTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS; FERRIC IONS; FTIR; LEACHING KINETICS; LEACHING PROCESS; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; THIOCYANATE;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84856545856     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2011.11.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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