Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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212291 | Hydrometallurgy | 2014 | 7 Pages |
•A process for antimony recovery from stibnite concentrate is proposed.•Antimony can be recovered as the form of Sb2O3 or high-purity SbOCl.•Antimony can be recovered as the form of cathode antimony or crude cathode.•The optimum parameters for each procedure are introduced.
This study aimed to introduce a comprehensive process for separating and recovering antimony from a complex stibnite concentrate. Antimony is first leached through a chlorination–oxidation procedure to obtain SbCl3 solution. Antimony is then recovered in the forms of cubic crystal Sb2O3 (99.9%), high-purity cathode antimony (99.98%), crude cathode antimony (99.7%), high-purity SbOCl (99.9%), and crude antimony (> 99%) through the following processes: hydrolysis, membrane electrowinning, hydrolysis–low temperature smelting, and hydrolysis–washing.