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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:
Jan. 02, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore C Frankiewicz, Westminster, CA (US);
Robert E Lueders, Needham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Kennecott Copper Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01G / ; C01G / ; C01G / ; C01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423 27 ; 423 53 ; 423109 ; 423150 ; 423 41 ;
Abstract
Sulfidic minerals containing metal values such as copper, silver, nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, zinc, iron, or mixtures thereof are oxidized with nitrogen dioxide to enable the metal values to be solubilized in an aqueous acidic leach liquor. In practicing the invention, the minerals are added to an aqueous acidic leach liquor and a nitrogen dioxide containing gas is sparged through the slurry to oxidize the metal values. During the reaction, the nitrogen dioxide is reduced to nitric oxide. The nitric oxide is oxidized to nitrogen dioxide by oxygen, either in-situ, or in a separate off-gas oxidizer.