Humic acids in brown coals from the southern Russian Far East: General characteristics and interactions with precious metals

Geochemistry International

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 437-446

  Avramenko, V A ^a   Bratskaya, S Yu ^a   Yakushevich, A S ^a   Voit, A V ^a   Ivanov, V V ^b   Ivannikov, S I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b FAR EAST GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

adsorption; brown coals; humic acids; nanometer sized particles

Indexed keywords

ACID-BASE PROPERTY; ASH CONTENTS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; GOLD PARTICLES; GOLD RECOVERIES; HUMIC ACID; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; NANOMETER-SIZED PARTICLES; ORGANIC MATRIX; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATION; RUSSIAN FAR EAST; SELECTIVE SEPARATION; SUBMICROMETER-SIZED PARTICLES;

ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CENTRIFUGATION; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; LIGNITE; METAL RECOVERY; ORGANIC ACIDS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GOLD; HUMIC ACID; LIGNITE; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; PRECIOUS METAL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RUSSIAN FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84860581005     PISSN: 00167029     EISSN: 15561968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0016702912030032     Document Type: Article

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