Noranda Inc.

Jaguar Nickel Inc.

Bryn G Harris

Ramamritham Sridhar

Vaikuntam Iyer Lakshmanan

Serge Monette

Robert W Stanley

George Puvvada

Jean-Pierre Barry

A process for recovery of platinum and palladium from an impure substantially gold-free precious and base metal-bearing acidic chloride or mixed chloride/sulphate solution comprises the steps of: contacting the acidic solution having a pH less than about 1.5 with an organic solution comprising an 8-hydroxy quinoline solvent extraction reagent, a phase modifier and an aromatic diluent to extract simultaneously platinum and palladium into the organic solution; scrubbing the loaded organic solution to remove co-extracted impurities and acid; stripping the loaded organic with a buffer solution operating in the pH range 2-5 at 20.degree.-50.degree. C. to selectively recover the platinum; stripping the platinum-free loaded organic with 3-8 M hydrochloric acid to recover the palladium; and regenerating the organic solution by washing with water.

Recovery of pure platinum and palladium

A process for recovery of gold from an impure precious and base metal-bearing acidic chloride or mixed chloride/sulphate solution comprises the steps of contacting the acidic solution with a polymeric acrylic ester adsorbent ion exchange resin to selectively adsorb gold, and stripping the gold from the loaded resin by elution with water.

Recovery of gold from acidic solutions

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