Copper recovery from chalcopyrite concentrate acid leach solutions by acorga M5397
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Unité Associée au CNRST
Publication date: 2013-01-01
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Khalid El Amari
Laboratoire Géoressources, Unité Associée au CNRST (URAC 42), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Guéliz, B. P. 549, 40000 Marrakech, Maroc
Physicochem. Probl. Miner. Process. 2013;49(1):329-339
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Chalcopyrite concentrate from Hajar Mine, Morocco, was leached with nitro-fluosilicic acid leach solution. The pregnant leach solution obtained contained 19.3 g/dm3 Cu, 18.1 g/dm3 Fe, 4.5 g/dm3 Zn and 0.03 g/dm3 Pb. Copper recovery from this pregnant leach liquor was performed by solvent extraction using Acorga M5397 diluted in Escaid 110. McCabe–Thiele distribution isotherms showed that at pH 1.7 complete and selective copper extraction can be achieved with φo/φa =1.5/1 in 3 stages of extraction. Stripping of the loaded copper by treating the organic phases by a fresh sulphuric acid solution was easily realized.