Lakefield Research Limited

Cesar J Ferron

A process for recovering a base metal from a material, the base metal being selected from cobalt, copper, nickel and zinc, the process comprising the steps of reacting the host material with a ferric ion species in a leach solution, at conditions sufficient to cause at least a portion of the base metal to be oxidized by the ferric ion species, thereby causing the ferric ion species to be converted to a ferrous ion species, and oxidizing the ferrous ion species with an oxidation mixture of SO,and oxygen to form the ferric ion species for subsequent reaction with the material.

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Peterborough, Canada

Cesar J Ferron