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Recovery of platinum, palladium, and gold from Stillwater Complex flotation concentrate by a roasting-leaching procedure

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    • Personal Author:
      Baglin, E. G. (Elizabeth G.)
    • Corporate Authors:
      United States. Bureau of Mines.
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      "The Bureau of Mines devised a procedure for selectively extracting platinum-group metals (PGM) and gold from Stillwater Complex flotation concentrate. The Stillwater Complex is the only major U.S. PGM resource. Development of a suitable extraction technique will contribute to its exploitation. The concentrate was roasted at 1,050 deg. C to convert host base-metal sulfides to oxides and the PGM from sulfide minerals to their elemental states. The roasted concentrate was preleached with dilute sulfuric acid to remove easily soluble gangue minerals. After preleaching, the concentrate was slurried with 6m hcl and leached at ambient temperature and pressure with a strong oxidizing agent. Hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, nitric acid, and a persulfate salt were the oxidants investigated. The two-stage leaching scheme extracted up to 97 pct of the platinum, 92 pct of the palladium, and 99 pct of the gold from the roasted concentrate. The base metals were not solubilized and reported to the residue. No attempt was made to devise a procedure to recover the copper and nickel because they comprise less than 5 pct of the value of the concentrate. Viable techniques for recovering the precious metals from the pregnant solution were sulfide precipitation, cementation with nickel, or adsorption on activated carbon" - NIOSHTIC-2

      NIOSH no. 10004565

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      Report of investigations (United States. Bureau of Mines) ; 8970
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      Report
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      Montana.
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