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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kohur Nagaraja Subramanian, Mississauga, CA;
Gerald Vernon Glaum, Oakville, CA;
Assignee:
The International Nickel Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01G / ; C01G / ; C01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423 32 ; 423 50 ; 423 53 ; 423150 ; 423 33 ; 423D / ;
Abstract
A process for extracting metal values from sea nodules is provided in which nickel, cobalt and copper values are selectively extracted by leaching raw sea nodules in an aqueous ammoniacal medium in the presence of a reducing agent for tetravalent manganese and carbonate to precipitate the reduced manganese as manganous carbonate.