Recovery of zinc from zinc bearing sulphide minerals by bioleaching and electrowinning

A method of recovering a precious metal from a sulphide mineral slurry which contains the precious metal which includes the steps of subjecting the slurry to a bioleaching process, supplying a feed gas which contains in excess of 21% oxygen by volume to the slurry, and recovering precious metal from...

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Hauptverfasser: P. BASSON, D.W. DEW, D.M. MILLER
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method of recovering a precious metal from a sulphide mineral slurry which contains the precious metal which includes the steps of subjecting the slurry to a bioleaching process, supplying a feed gas which contains in excess of 21% oxygen by volume to the slurry, and recovering precious metal from a bioleach residue of the bioleaching process.