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Lead processing - Refining, Smelting, Alloying: To remove and recover remaining impurities from lead bullion, either pyrometallurgical or electrolytic refining is used; the choice between the two methods is dictated by the amount of bismuth that must be eliminated from the bullion and by the availability and cost of energy. The Parkes zinc …
Owing to the property of antimony, a new adsorbent has been synthesized with oxides of antimony and BaSO 4, which offers great potential for removing impurities from copper electrolyte. The adsorbent has a high selectivity for Bi, Sb, and As. One kilogram of the adsorbent can, at least, adsorb 15.5 g Bi, 14.0 g Sb,
The clean production process for extracting antimony from refractory gold ore involves sodium sulfide leaching, pressure oxidation, concentration, and crystallization steps. First, the stibnite in the refractory gold ore reacts with sodium sulfide, and antimony is dissolved into the leaching solution in the form of sodium …
The average antimony ore and concentrate export price stood at $3,582 per tonne in 2021, increasing by 44% against the previous year. Prices varied noticeably by the country of origin; the country ...
The electro-refining of copper, the utilization of an electrolytic cell, is an essential process step in the production of high purity copper . During electrolysis impurities such as antimony (Sb) and bismuth (Bi) dissolve into the sulfuric acid electrolyte solution from copper anodes.
A new clean process for preparing high purity antimony trisulfide directly from antimony ore by a two-step vacuum distillation method at low temperature was proposed in this study. Impurity arsenic was volatilized into the gas phase, and antimony and other impurities were retained in the residue in the first step at 773 K and 5 Pa for …
To eliminate the adverse effect of antimony on extracting of gold in matte smelting process from Sb-bearing refractory gold ores, the sodium sulfide leaching method was proposed to selectively remove antimony in advance. On the basis of the analysis and characterization of raw materials (XRD, SEM-EDS, mineralogical phase analysis, etc.), it can be detected …
An industrial scale two meters long with 17 cm diameter (outer tube) horizontal zone refining equipment, provided with a single inductive heater (W 5 cm) and capable of generating up to 45 kW with 10 kHz maximum frequency was established for this work.The pieces of Sb were charged in a high purity quartz crucible boat (L 60 cm × W 5 …
1. Introduction. Antimony is a hard, lustrous, silvery-grey metal. Antimony is unevenly distributed throughout the crust of the Earth, with China (32%), Russia (23%) and Bolivia (21%) as the top three countries in terms of their antimony reserves (Ding et al., 2021).It is extremely difficult to beneficiate antimony since the average abundance of …
1.1 Pyro-metallurgical refining process (Harris) The first step is to remove copper and the second step is to remove antimony, arsenic and tin. The removal of copper is done by sulfurization of copper. A skim from copper sulfide will float at the surface of the molten lead and can be skimmed off. The second step is a batch process (oxidation ...
Abstract. Antimony circulates in a tin refining system, which strongly affects the production process. In this study, continuous vacuum separation and discontinuous vacuum separation processes were developed for high-antimony crude tin (HACT). During the industrial treatment of 60 t of HACT, product I of crude Sn and Sn–Sb alloy I were ...
Summary. Antimony has a range of industrial uses in batteries, chemicals, ceramics and glass but by far the most important is in fire retardants. The economically most important ore mineral and principal source for the production of antimony is stibnite. Majority of antimony-bearing ore deposits are associated with the subduction-related ...
In the process of electrolytic refining, the required antimony content of lead anode plate is approximately 0.4–0.7 wt%. When antimony content of lead anode plate is more than 1.2 wt%, antimony firmly adheres to the residual lead anode plate during the refining process, which leads to difficulty in cleaning.
In the final refining step, the main impurities that affect electro-winning process are As, Sb, Bi, Pb, and Sn [12]. Since Pb and Sn are quantitatively next in line to the major base metals (Cu ...
Antimony- and bismuth-rich copper anodes, anode slimes and decopperized anode slimes from industrial copper electrorefineries were studied mineralogically. Antimony in the anodes occurs mainly as ...
Arsenic-alkali residue is a hazardous waste produced by the refining process of crude antimony in antimony smelting, and contains highly toxic sodium arsenate and a large number of residual alkali.
They proposed a pyrometallurgical process based on reduction smelting, alkaline refining, and oxidation to extract antimony from antimony dust and produce Sb 2 O 3 with a purity above 99.8 % [76 ...
The crude antimony used in this study was provided by a smelter in Hunan, China (Fig. 1 (a)).The X-ray diffraction (XRD) of crude antimony show that the primary phase is antimony (Fig. 1 (b)).Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used to detect the contents of Ag, S, Si, Sn, Pb, and Bi, and inductively coupled …
The content of bismuth in the antimony metal recovered by this process was less than 0.2%, while the content of antimony in the bismuth metal was less than 0.4%. View Show abstract
The low-purity lead bullion contains only 75–80% by weight lead, leading to the poor efficiency of electrolytic refining. In this procedure, antimony is oxidized to Sb 2 O 3 and then reduced to Sb. The direct recovery ratio of lead and antimony is unsatisfactory due to the long process by conventional industrial pyrometallurgy process shown ...
Potential candidate secondary sources of antimony include the by-products of pyrometallurgical copper extraction and refining. The final stage of the copper process involves electrolytic refining from 99.7%-pure copper anodes. These anodes contain impurities from ore concentrates, which are incorporated in the electrolyte along with …
An electrolytic refining process is used in order to obtain antimony with an overall impurity content not above 0.1–0.3%. In this this case the complete scheme for comprehensive treatment of antimony raw material includes: flame refining of ferrous metal electrolysis in solutions, solution purification from accumulated impu-
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Refining using Sulphide of Antimony. This process is also some centuries old, and is based on the fact that when gold-silver alloys are melted with sulphide of antimony sulphide of silver will form, and the gold will alloy with the antimony. Au + 6Ag + Sb2S3 = Au + 2Sb + 3Ag 2S. Copper and other metals will also be removed by this …
The main purpose of this study was to separate lead from crude antimony through an oxidation pyro-refining process and by using sodium metaphosphate as a lead elimination reagent. The process parameters that will affect the refining results were optimized experimentally under controlled conditions, such as the sodium …
2. Caustic soda use in a lead refinery The classical refinement of raw lead is given in Fig. 1, showing the considerable use of caustic soda. First, the copper is removed from the raw lead, then the arsenic and antimony are removed by the so-called `softening' process. The lead softening is carried 0304-386X/97/$17.00 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
Research has already been conducted on the use of aluminium to remove antimony and copper from lead from scrap lead–acid batteries in terms of lead pre-refining. To remove antimony, arsenic, and tin more thoroughly, an additional refining process using the anodic polarisation of lead in molten sodium hydroxide has been …
