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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2010
Rahul S. Bhaduri, Moraga, CA (US);
Rahul S. Bhaduri, Moraga, CA (US);
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, this invention is directed to a method of recovering metals from a metals bearing material comprising: reducing the particle size of at least a portion of the metals bearing material; mixing the metals bearing material in an acid solution to form a first slurry containing at least alkaline earth metal compounds; separating the at least alkaline earth metal compounds from the first slurry to form a first filtrate and a metals bearing material; leaching metals from the metals bearing material to form a pressure leach solution containing transition metals; precipitating and recovering transition metals from the pressure leach solution. In another aspect, the invention relates to a method for recovering metals from a deoiled and dried coal liquefaction residue that contains spent catalyst originating from a Group VIB metal sulfide catalyst.