Thiocyanate hydrometallurgy for the recovery of gold. Part IV: Solvent extraction of gold with Alamine 336

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 113-114, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-30

  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

Alamine 336; Amines; Gold; Solvent extraction; Stripping; Thiocyanate

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; BARK STRIPPING; GOLD; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SOLVENTS; THIOUREAS;

ALAMINE 336; DECANOL; EXTRACTION REACTION; GOLD EXTRACTION; ORGANIC PHASE; TERTIARY AMINE; THIOCYANATE; THIOCYANATE CONCENTRATIONS;

SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

EID: 84856549459     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2011.11.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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