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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2009
Applicant:
Eric Girvan Roche, Booragul, AU;
Inventor:
Eric Girvan Roche, Booragul, AU;
Assignee:
BHP Billiton SSM Development Pty Ltd., Perth, Western Australia, AU;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process for the recovery of a metal sulfide from a metal ion containing solution, including the steps of: a) providing a slurry containing seed panicles of said metal sulfide; h) adding a sulfide ion containing solution to said slurry to form an activated seed slurry; c) mixing said activated seed slurry with said metal ion containing solution to thereby form a metal sulfide precipitate; and d) recovering said metal sulfide precipitate.