Deepgreen Engineering, Pte. Ltd.

William M Nixon

William F Drinkard

Hans J Woerner

An improved method for treating manganese-containing materials, such as seafloor manganese nodules, by leaching with aqueous HNOand NO gas, and more particularly to methods for recovering valuable constituents from such nodules, especially manganese, cobalt, nickel, iron, and copper. It also provides a method to leach manganese material to release the titanium, vanadium, cerium, molybdenum and other metals from the manganese oxides and to make them available to be recovered.

Treatment of manganese-containing materials

An improved method for treating manganese-containing materials, such as seafloor manganese nodules, by leaching such materials with aqueous HNOand polymerized nitric oxide (NO), and more particularly to methods for recovering valuable constituents from such nodules, especially manganese, cobalt, nickel, iron, and copper. It also provides a method to leach manganese-containing material to release any titanium, vanadium, cerium, molybdenum and other metals from the manganese oxides and to make them available to be recovered, as well as providing a method of producing a fertilizer grade nitrate product.

An improved method for treating manganese-containing materials, such as nodules recovered by undersea mining, including reacting the materials with ammonia, and leaching with a mineral acid, and to methods for recovering valuable constituents from such nodules, especially manganese, cobalt, nickel, iron, copper, titanium, vanadium, cerium, and molybdenum. A method for the production of nitrate products is also disclosed.

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Charlotte, NC, United States of America

William M Nixon