Chemistry Journal of Moldova

APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE PROCESSES FOR GOLD RECOVERY FROM ROMANIAN MINING WASTES

Author(s):

Stefano Ubaldini, Igor Povar, Tudor Lupascu, Oxana Spinu, Francesca Trapasso, Daniele Passeri, Serena Carloni, Daniela Guglietta


Field: Ecological chemistry
Type: Research paper
Issue: 2020 Volume 15, no.2
Pages: 29-37
Keywords:

mining waste, gold, thiosulphate leaching, activated carbon, adsorption, desorption.


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Graphical Abstract: The application of a new hydrometallurgical process for gold extraction by thiosulphate leaching from Romanian mining wastes, coming from Balan and Deva deposits, was studied. There was obtained 85% of Au extraction after leaching; moreover, an integrated flow-sheet, including recycling of process solution and carbon, was outlined, based on results obtained at a laboratory scale, using a schematic chemical circuit of treatment. Global recovery of the process (leaching-adsorption-desorption-electrodeposition) of about 75-80% of Au was achieved. The developed integrated flow-sheet, allows to recycle the reagents during the process, with a loss of only 5-10%, in particular thiosulphate and alcohol, for each complete circuit of treatment.


 


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