Thiourea leaching gold and silver from the printed circuit boards of waste mobile phones

Waste Management

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1209-1212

  Jing ying, Li ^a   Xiu li, Xu ^a,b   Wen quan, Liu ^b  

^a QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Gold; Printed circuit boards (PCBs); Silver; Thiourea leaching; Waste mobile phones

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE LEACHING; GOLD AND SILVER; GOLD EXTRACTION; HAZARDOUS SYSTEMS; LEACHING PROCESS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; WASTE MOBILE PHONE;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; CYANIDES; GOLD; LEACHING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SILVER; THIOUREAS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

FERRIC ION; GOLD; SILVER; THIOUREA;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANIDE; EXTRACTION METHOD; GOLD; LEACHING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RECYCLING; SILVER; SOLID WASTE; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; LEACHING; MOBILE PHONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PH MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; REACTION TIME; RECYCLING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOSTABILITY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GOLD; IRON; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; TEMPERATURE; THIOUREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84860158950     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.01.026     Document Type: Article

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