Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc.

Nichromet Extraction Inc.

Dundee, Technologies Durables Inc.

Université De Sherbrooke

Johnson & Johnson Gmbh

Hydro-quebec

Ceram-sna Inc.

Ventron Corporation

Societe Nationale De L'amiante

Ksm Inc.

Ug Plus International Inc.

Societe Nationale De L'aminate

Inotel Inc.

Jean-Marc Lalancette

David Lemieux

Bertrand Dubreuil

Khalil Nasrallah

Hugues Menard

Romain Barbaroux

Germain Belanger

Regina Zamojska

Bernard Coupal

Marcel Cossette

Gabriel Garcia Curiel

Pierre Delvaux

Estelle Potvin

Gabriel Garcia-Curiel

There is provided a method for the removal of arsenic from an arsenical bearing sulfides ore, comprising a thermal treatment of arsenical sulfide in the presence of sulfur dioxide, yielding a calcine and a sublimate, the sublimate containing arsenious oxide. The method allows recovering metallic value from an arsenic-bearing metallic sulfides ore, by recovery of the calcine comprising the metallic value of the ore.

Method and system for metal recovery from arsenical bearing sulfides ores

A method of fabrication of arsenic glass, comprising forming pellets of an arsenic-containing glass-forming mixture comprising arsenic in a range between about 30 and about 50% w/w and glass forming elements, and melting the pellets by direct heating to a temperature in a range between about 950 and about 1250&#xb0; C.

System and method of fabrication of arsenic glass

A method for producing a double sulfate of potassium and magnesium by dry mechanical attrition of potassium sulfate and magnesium sulfate hexahydrate, comprising obtaining potassium sulfate by sulfatation of potash to bisulfate of potassium and disproportionation of the bisulfate of potassium to potassium sulfate in a water-methanol solution, and obtaining magnesium sulfate hexahydrate by sonic-assisted partial sulfatation of calcined serpentinic silicate.

Potassium magnesium fertilizer

A method for vitrification of arsenic and antimony, comprising substituting oxygen to sulfur on thiosalts, incorporating resulting sodium arsenate and sodium antimonate into a sodium silicate glass-forming mixture and vitrifying the sodium silicate glass-forming mixture into a resulting glass sequestering the arsenic and antimony.

Method for vitrification of arsenic and antimony

There is provided a method and composition for sequestration of arsenic, the method comprising melting an arsenic-containing material in the presence of iron oxide and glass, and yielding a resulting glass incorporating arsenic. The resulting glass has an arsenic content comprised in a range between 1 and 25% w/w and an iron content comprised in a range between 8 and 20% w/w.

Method and composition for sequestration of arsenic

A method for selectively processing a polymetallic oxide solution containing a plurality of base metals comprising at least one of: Cu, Co, Ni, Zn associated with iron, comprising acid leaching the solution; recovering a filtered leachate; oxidizing the leachate; and adjusting the pH of the leachate in presence of a complexing agent; wherein the acidic solution is one of: i) a hydrochloric acid solution and ii) a sulfuric acid solution at a pH lower than about 1.5, and the complexing agent is one of: i) ammonium chloride and ii) ammonium sulfate, the step of adjusting the pH comprising raising the pH to a range between about 2.5 and about 3.5.

Method for selective precipitation of iron, arsenic and antimony

A method for extracting precious metals from a polymetallic ore, comprising a) generating hypochlorites from a salt brine; b) chlorination of the ore using hypochlorites under acidic conditions; c) filtering to collect a pregnant solution and treating the pregnant solution for collection of precious metals; d) filtering to separate the precious metals and a barren brine; e) purifying the barren brine; and f) recycling halogens from the purified brine in the form of hypohalites formed by electrolysis of the purified brine, and comprising hypochlorite and hypobromite; step b) further comprising scrubbing excess halogens using calcium hydroxide; treating the pregnant solution in step c) comprises reducing an oxydo reduction potential of the pregnant solution and using calcium hydroxide for neutralization; and step e) comprising increasing the pH of the barren brine by addition of calcium hydroxide.

Closed loop method for gold and silver extraction by halogens

A method for recovering precious metal from an acidic pregnant solution resulting from halogen or hypohalite leaching of an ore, comprising lowering the ORP of the pregnant leachate with a reducing agent in the presence of slurried non-carboneous particles. The precious metal deposits on the surfaces of the particles and a barren solution comprising substantially all the halogen values of the pregnant solution in the form of sodium chloride, sodium bromide or hypohalites is recovered.

Method and system for gold recovery

The invention relates to a method for the extraction of precious metals, using halogens. It has been found that introducing halogens in the reactor in the form of hypohalites rather than free halogens simplified greatly the recycling of halogens by electrolysis. It increases the rate of addition of the halogens and significantly reduces secondary reactions with base metals such as iron. Operating under acidic conditions, the gold recovery has been found as high with hypochlorite as with elemental chlorine, with an active chlorine to ore ratio reduced by a factor of two to five.

Method and a system for gold extraction with halogens

A method for sequestrating arsenic oxides, comprising forming an insoluble and stable glass incorporating a fully oxidized form of arsenic generated by oxidation of an initial lower oxide of arsenic and stabilization by calcium salt formation. The glass composition for sequestration of arsenic comprises from 50 to 75% silica; from 0.5 to 3% AlO; from 1 to 15% MnO; from 5 to 15% CaO; from 1 to 20% AsOand from 8 to 14% NaO, less than four percent of iron oxides, magnesium oxide and other oxides.

A method and a system for the production of potassium sulfate. The method comprises reacting a chloride of potassium with a magnesium sulfate in an aqueous alcoholic solution, with recycling of magnesium sulfate and production of hydrochloric acid, where the recycling of magnesium is done by a reaction of sulfuric acid on resulting magnesium chloride with corresponding production of magnesium sulfate and hydrochloric acid.

Method and system for the production of potassium sulfate from potassium chloride

A process for producing potassium magnesium sulfate, comprising reacting sulfuric acid with potassium chloride and magnesium chloride at a temperature in a range comprised between about 100 and about 160&#xb0; C., thereby producing potassium magnesium sulfate and hydrochloric acid, the sulfuric acid being reacted with potassium chloride and magnesium chloride simultaneously or sequentially.

A method for treating a polymetallic sulfide ore containing gold and/or silver, and further containing base metals selected from the group consisting of iron, aluminum, chromium, titanium, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, cobalt, mercury, tin, and mixtures thereof, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of grinding the polymetallic sulfide ore to produce granules, oxidizing the granules to produce oxidized granules, and chloride leaching the granules using a brine solution including dissolved halogens, as well as chloride and bromide salts.

Gold and silver recovery from polymetallic sulfides by treatment with halogens

Ores containing copper, zinc, silver in the form of sulfides are treated by a solution of sulfurated sulfite ions and ammonium ions in order to remove most of the metals from the sulfide ores. This treatment renders the resulting gold bearing ores much more amenable to cyanide extraction. Dissolved metals are reclaimed by appropriate techniques, such as electrowinning or liquid-liquid extraction, and the solution of sulfurated sulfites and ammonia is recycled for further lixiviation of fresh ores.

Process for removing and recovering copper, silver and zinc from sulfide

A pressure-molded, rigid, high surface cathodic or anodic electrode of low electrical resistance and good mechanical strength and resistance to corrosion comprising non-dissolving, electrically-conducting metal particles of high specific surfaces and fractal structure which are bound with up to 15% by weight of aluminum phosphate.

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Sherbrooke, Canada

Jean-Marc Lalancette