Abstract This paper describes a chloridizing roasting process applied to two types of nickel and copper bearing sulfide concentrates One was copper rich and the other nickel rich The paper gives a full account of the process as investigated in various batch roasters and in multiple hearth and rotary roasters
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Get PriceNickel is recovered through extractive metallurgy Nickel is extracted from its ores by conventional roasting and reduction processes that yield a metal of greater than 75% purity In many stainless steel applications 75% pure nickel can be used without further purification depending on the composition of the impurities Most sulfide ores
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Get PriceJun 1 2022To efficiently co extract Ni and Cu from low grade nickel copper sulfide ore chlorination roasting with NH 4 Cl followed by a water leaching process was investigated The results show that % Ni and % Cu can be synchronously extracted when the ore particle size is 75 80 μm the roasting time is 2 h the mass ratio of NH 4 Cl to ore is 1 and the roasting temperature is 550 °C
Get PriceThe results conclusively demonstrated that to achieve a 2% plus nickel concentrate grade the Dikoloti ore has to be mixed with BCL material prior to flotation The leaching results showed that excellent nickel and copper recoveries could be achieved with a 1 2 ore acid mix namely a % Cu and % Ni recovery at ambient temperature
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Get PriceSee Page 1 Smelting copper ore by traditional methods had cost between $130 and $200 per tonne The introduction of biohydro metallurgy cut the cost to less than $70 per tonne Production of one tonne of copper by smelting typically results in two tonnes of sulphur dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere Biological extraction avoids this
Get PriceGases for Refining and Roasting in the Non Ferrous … oxides in many copper and nickel baths This … the quality of the concentrate varies … Zinc smelting Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Zinc smelting is the process of converting zinc concentrates … cadmium cobalt and nickel … This process begins by roasting concentrates that are mixed with …
Get PriceData from 1 International Copper Study Group 2024 2 Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2024 Manufacture of copper About 80% of the world s primary copper comes from ores in which copper is present as a sulfide mineral for example chalcopyrite CuFeS 2 the most abundant copper ore bornite Cu 5 FeS 4 and chalcocite Cu 2 S These ores contain typically only about
Get PriceSearch Sulphide Ore Extraction It s an area that Twin Metals a subsidiary of Chilean mining giant Antofagasta has spent years trying to tap via a proposed underground sulfide ore copper mine This can be done by giving the sulphide ore an oxidizing sulphatizing roast Any further queries please feel free to contact me at Email:[email protected] A way of extracting the copper from the
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Get PriceChalcopyrite Ore Production split copper and nickel sulfides and separate them from iron The sulfide ore minerals including chalcopyrite CuFeS 2 sphalerite ZnS galena PbS provide the major sources of the world s base metals Cu Zn Pb respectively whereas pyrite is virtually ubiquitous as a metalliferous mineral in
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Get PriceNickel Ore Mineral Processing Copper Nickel Ore Flotation Process A basic principle of copper sulfide nickel ore process is that it is better to let the coppers assimilate into the nickel ore Because it is easier to recovery cooper from the nickel concentrate The process has a best advantage get the copper concentrate that has a low nickel …
Get PriceRoasting is essentially a surface reaction where the oxide layer is formed first and continues to remain as a porous layer through which oxygen can pass into the still unreacted inner sulfide portion of the particle and the SO 2gas formed comes out Roasting is an exothermic reaction This heat helps to keep the roaster at the required
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Get Price1 Sulphide Copper Nickel Processing 2 Nickel Oxide Processing To Wrap Up Nickel ore is mainly divided into sulfide copper nickel ore and nickel oxide ore laterite nickel ore and the beneficiation and processing methods of the two are completely different The world s proven basic nickel reserves are about 69 million tons and the total
Get PriceKey words low grade nickel−copper sulfide ore chlorination roasting synchronous extraction phase evolution kinetics 1 Introduction After years of continuous mining the high grade nickel sulfide ore is facing exhaustion and the low grade nickel−copper sulfide ore will replace it to be the main feedstock in the
Get PriceA new mineral processing and metallurgy technology was proposed which was that the ferro nickel concentrate was prepared from laterite ore by coal based direct reduction Under the reduction of cheap reductant and the catalysis of composite additives the effects of coal based direct reduction were enhanced and the ferro nickel was extracted
Get Pricethis has resulted in the production of million tonnes of nickel and million tonnes of copper over the years Total ore reserves are estimated at billion tonnes Patterson 2024 Nickel smelting began on December 22 1888 when Canadian Copper started up a Herrshoff water jacket blast furnace to treat the calcine from the roast yard
Get PriceCopper Copper is economically extracted by smelting of a chalcopyrite concentrate A copper electrowinning process was developed commercially in 1912 for the treatment of lean ores It is also suitable for treatment of copper oxide or sulfate obtained by roasting of the concentrate
Get Pricealso use diesel fuel for surface hauling of ore to the mill Approximately 155 pounds of explosives are used for every short ton of copper produced in underground The average grade of the ore mined the ratio of overlying dirt and rock overburden to the ore body stripping ratio and the depth of the pit 5Gaines supra note 3
Get PriceAs copper turned into copper sulfate during sulfation roasting it is important that how much sulfur removed and remained in the roasted ore Seen from Figure 1 the transformation ratio of sulfur dioxide enhanced from 75% to 92% when the roasting temperature ranged from 450˚C to 650˚C
Get PriceConcentrate A product of ore concen tration with a high grade of the extracted mineral which gives its name to the concen trate copper nickel etc Cuprous ores Ores containing 20% to 70% sulphides with the following metal grades % for nickel % for copper 5 50 g/t for platinum group metals Roasting
Get PriceThe experimental results indicate that a ferronickel concentrate with % Ni and % Fe can be obtained from the high magnesium low nickel HL oxide ore containing % Ni and % Fe via
Get Priceenergy required for smelting of copper and nickel to be GJ/t and GJ/t respectively About 80% of the world s copper is produced by pyrometallurgical processes from sulphide ores while the remainder is produced by hydrometallurgical processes Nickel sulphide ores as well as about 35% of nickel laterites are processed
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