Extraction of Gold from Gold Chloride Solution by the Depth Reduction Based on Potential Controlling in the Process of Treating Copper Anode Slime

The Kaldor furnace smelting process is currently the mainstream process for treating copper anode slime, but the existence of copper, tellurium and other impurities has adverse effects on the recovery of gold and silver during the Kaldor furnace smelting stage. Therefore, it is necessary to pretreat the copper anode slime to remove these impurities before Kaldor furnace reduction smelting. However, the current pretreatment process of copper anode slime generally has the problem of low removal efficiency of copper and tellurium, and little research on the occurrence state of main metals in copper anode slime. Therefore, this study quantitatively determined the phase composition of Cu, Te, Pb, Bi, As, Sb, Se, Ag and Au, and hydrogen peroxide was introduced to enhance the leaching of impurities. The leaching behavior of each metal in copper anode slime was investigated in detail. The results demonstrate that Cu and Te in the copper anode slime mainly exist in the form of CuO and CuSO4 and Te and AuTe2, respectively. More than 99% of the Cu and 97% of the Te were leached out using 250 g/L H2SO4 and 28.8 g/L H2O2 with a leaching pressure of 0.8 MPa at 150 °C for 2 h, while the leaching of Au and Ag was both < 0.03%. The removal of Cu and Te and the enrichment of precious metals were achieved. This study provides a rich theoretical reference for the optimization of the Kaldor furnace process.

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Leaching Behavior of the Main Metals from Copper Anode Slime during the Pretreatment Stage of the Kaldor Furnace Smelting Process

Zeng

Liu

Zhou

et al. 2022

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Extraction of Gold from Gold Chloride Solution by the Depth Reduction Based on Potential Controlling in the Process of Treating Copper Anode Slime

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Leaching Behavior of the Main Metals from Copper Anode Slime during the Pretreatment Stage of the Kaldor Furnace Smelting Process

Leaching Behavior of the Main Metals from Copper Anode Slime during the Pretreatment Stage of the Kaldor Furnace Smelting Process

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