Copper cyanide removal by precipitation with quaternary ammonium salts

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-49

  Alonso Gonzalez O ^a   Nava Alonso, F ^b   Jimenez Velasco, C ^b   Uribe Salas, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ZACATECAS   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Copper cyanide complexes; Cyanidation effluents; Quaternary ammonium salts

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; AMMONIUM SALT; ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; COPPER AND ZINC; COPPER CYANIDE; CYANIDATION; CYANIDE CONSUMPTION; CYANIDE SOLUTION; FREE CYANIDES; INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS; LABORATORY WORK; MOLAR RATIO; OCTADECYL; PH VALUE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTHETIC SOLUTIONS; TRIMETHYL;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COPPER; CYANIDES; EFFLUENTS; FILTRATION; PRECIOUS METALS; RECYCLING; ZINC;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84872249117     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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