Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4769370 | Hydrometallurgy | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
To avoid the adverse effects of antimony on the cyanide leaching process used for the recovery of gold from refractory gold ore, a cleaner production process was proposed that would selectively remove antimony as sodium pyroantimonate. The process included three steps: 1) leaching of antimony from the refractory gold ore with sodium sulfide solution; 2) pressure oxidation of the leaching solution containing sodium thioantimonite, transforming it to sodium pyroantimonate; and 3) concentration/crystallization to recover the sodium thiosulfate byproduct from the oxidized solution. The leaching recoveries of antimony, gold, and arsenic in the first step were 96.64%, 1.44%, and 0.41%, respectively. The precipitation ratio of antimony exceeded 99.80% during the second step. The synthesized sodium pyroantimonate product exhibited a regular tetragonal morphology. The purity of the sodium thiosulfate byproduct obtained during the third step reached 98.0%.
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Authors
Tianzu Yang, Shuai Rao, Weifeng Liu, Duchao Zhang, Lin Chen,