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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1977
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Hopkin, Bristol, EN;
Assignees:
Metallurgical Processes Limited, Nassau, BA;
I.S.C. Smelting Limited of London, London, EN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423 24 ;
Abstract
A method of extracting copper from an aqueous ammoniacal leach solution which is derived from the leaching of copper dross and which contains impurity cations, comprising contacting the leach solution with a copper-selective organic phase to take copper into the organic phase and then stripping the copper from the organic phase into an aqueous phase, the organic phase being washed with a dilute acid before stripping, wherein before the organic phase is washed with the dilute acid the concentration of copper in the organic phase is reduced below a level at which poor phase separation occurs under acid conditions.