The main purpose of this study was to separate lead from crude antimony through an oxidation pyro-refining process and by using sodium metaphosphate as a lead elimination reagent.
DetailsThe process of obtaining antimony trioxide from Unified Mining Company S.A. (EMUSA) has two production lines. The refining slag from the second production line was stored since the plant started operations, registering high antimony contents which is the reason for this research project.
DetailsLead processing - Refining, Smelting, Alloying: To remove and recover remaining impurities from lead bullion, either pyrometallurgical or electrolytic refining is used; the choice between the two methods is dictated by the …
DetailsThere are two main types of modern antimony production methods—pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy [1,2,3].At present, the former is the main. The vast majority of antimony smelting enterprises have been using the traditional blast furnace volatile–reverberatory furnace reduction process, which is of low environmental …
DetailsTypically the main objective of the process is to recover a desired metal associated with the antimony mineral, primarily gold. In some instances, pre–treatment of sulfide …
DetailsThis study examined how pH hydrolysis affects the recovery process for antimony extracted from spent electrolytes. Various OH− reagents were used to adjust the pH levels.
DetailsDuring zone refining process, As concentration in the whole bar was considerably reduced from 456 ppm to below 150 ppm (and as low as 50 ppm at the end of the bar) after only one zone pass by adding 0.1 wt.% Al into the Sb, which is contributed to the floating of formed AlAs intermetallic. ... Method for removal of lead and arsenic in …
DetailsAntimony circulates in a tin refining system, which strongly affects the production process. In this study, continuous vacuum separation and discontinuous vacuum separation processes were developed for high-antimony crude tin (HACT). During the industrial treatment of 60 t of HACT, product I of crude Sn and Sn–Sb alloy I were …
DetailsElectrolytic refining of antimony is mostly realized by electrolysis of solution, where hydrofluoric acid and sulfuric acid solutions are used as electrolyte to generate high …
DetailsMore recently, both Sb-and As-based refining agents have been replaced (largely on the basis of their toxicity [1,2]) by sulphurcontaining refining agents such as Na 2 SO 4 and blast-furnace slag ...
DetailsNo, really, it could have. Antimony is a strategic critical mineral that is used in all manner of military applications, including the manufacture of armor piercing bullets, night vision goggles ...
DetailsThis paper reviews the state-of-the-art technologies for the antimony separation and recovery from refractory ores and metallurgical residues. The advantages and …
DetailsThe traditional method of producing antimony metal is through heat smelting. However, researchers at MIT claim to have accidentally stumbled upon a new method of smelting …
DetailsResults of an investigation aimed at optimizing the fire refining process for purification and extraction of antimony into a high-grade commercial metallic product are presented.
DetailsMany countries will have to rely on recovering antimony from refractory ores and metallurgical residues. For the purpose of efficient and selective antimony recovery …
DetailsAntimony is a little-known metalloid commonly used in lead-acid batteries and fire retardants, and while deposits are found worldwide, China's large resource, low cost of production and significant processing capacity has seen the country dominate market supply. ... which dominates mining and refining, especially as the ongoing trade …
DetailsAntimony (Sb) has a long and diverse history of applications, from a marginal use in cosmetics, pigments and pharmacology in ancient times to a drastic increase in its demand over the 20th century ...
DetailsTo remove antimony, arsenic, and tin more thoroughly, an additional refining process using the anodic polarisation of lead in molten sodium hydroxide has been proposed [ 30, 31, …
DetailsAn improved process for refining lead bullion containing antimony, in which the bullion is initially heated in a refining vessel to about 25° F. (14° C.) above the bullion melting point, and is thereafter kept molten primarily by exothermic process reactions. The process includes the steps of melting the lead-antimony bullion, agitating the bullion, adding …
DetailsBinz et al. developed a bottom-up process to recover antimony from lead-refining residues. They investigated a more selective oxidation during lead softening and the carbothermic reduction of the slag to produce a concentrated antimony slag and improve the recovery …
DetailsThe main purpose of this study was to separate lead from crude antimony through an oxidation pyro-refining process and by using sodium metaphosphate as a lead elimination reagent. The process parameters that will affect the refining results were optimized experimentally under controlled conditions, such as the sodium …
DetailsThey proposed a pyrometallurgical process based on reduction smelting, alkaline refining, and oxidation to extract antimony from antimony dust and produce Sb 2 O 3 with a purity above 99.8 % [76 ...
DetailsGold can be concentrated and recovered by applying different gold refining process methods and the final product has variable quality. In this way, it is necessary to have a better marketable product so that the incomes can be improved. Then, we have two smelt and cast the gold into bars called bullion or Dore.
DetailsResults of an investigation aimed at optimizing the fire refining process for purification and extraction of antimony into a high-grade commercial metallic product are presented. …
DetailsBy taking antimony and arsenic as the objective elements, the mass balance and substance flow charts based on the production system were established, and evaluating …
DetailsAntimony has been highlighted as a critical raw material in the EU owing to its economic significance and high supply risk. Due to the dispersed uses and low antimony concentration of the main antimony end-use, i.e. flame retardant in plastics, little antimony has been recovered from waste plastics to date. ...
DetailsBottom-up process design is performed for a new antimony white fuming approach from antimony-rich lead refining residues. Thermochemical modelling is used to evaluate process boundaries regarding temperature and slag composition allowing the fuming of qualified antimony white from mentioned residues.
DetailsRefining using Sulphide of Antimony. This process is also some centuries old, and is based on the fact that when gold-silver alloys are melted with sulphide of antimony sulphide of silver will form, and the gold will alloy with the antimony. Au + 6Ag + Sb2S3 = Au + 2Sb + 3Ag 2S. Copper and other metals will also be removed by this …
DetailsThe pyrometallurgical process for refining lead bullion includes oxidation refining process and basic refining process, which both are on the basis of the principle that antimony is oxidized more easily than lead [6]. The oxidation refining mainly chooses air as oxidant which oxidizes antimony in the molten lead.
DetailsHowever, this process ran into difficulties and was not put on steam. The quality of the antimony concentrate can be seen from the figures in Table 3. Antimony recovery is low, about 60%, probably due to the heavy dosage of cyanide in the upstream gold leaching process. Dissolved antimony contributed to the high reagent consumption.
DetailsBismuth (Bi) and antimony (Sb) are two of the most critical impurities, which cause grain boundary cracks in wiredrawing. ... As a result of the problems associated with bismuth, its concentration must be carefully controlled and managed in the refinery tank house. Process advantages of the award winning SuperLig ...
DetailsRefining techniques are employed to further purify and process antimony after it has been extracted from its ore. These techniques aim to remove impurities and obtain high-purity antimony products suitable for specific applications. Here are some commonly used refining techniques in antimony processing: 1. Pyrometallurgical …
DetailsFire-refining process is the main method for bismuth refining. Electrochemical refining process is used only for crude bismuth, which is difficult to be refined directly by fire-refining process. ... oxidation refining and alkaline refining for arsenic, antimony and tellurium removal, zinc-adding for silver removal, chlorination for zinc and ...
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DetailsResearch has already been conducted on the use of aluminium to remove antimony and copper from lead from scrap lead–acid batteries in terms of lead pre-refining. To remove antimony, arsenic, and tin more thoroughly, an additional refining process using the anodic polarisation of lead in molten sodium hydroxide has been …
DetailsPyrometallurgy has been the main process of antimony extraction (producing more than 90% of the global Sb amount) for its primary (Anderson, 2012;Ye et al., 2019a) and secondary productions ...
DetailsAfter the smelting process, the melt was allowed to cool to room temperature. The slag was then mechanically separated from the antimony. The metallic antimony obtained had a mass of 73.98 g, while the slag weighed 86.62 g. The detailed results of the antimony refining process are presented in Table 5.
DetailsPurification is a primary application of zone melting, in which the improvement of efficiency, production yield and minimum achievable impurity level are always the research focus due to the increasing demand for high purity metals. This paper has systematically outlined the whole development of related research on zone refining of metals including basic …
DetailsPotential candidate secondary sources of antimony include the by-products of pyrometallurgical copper extraction and refining. The final stage of the copper process involves electrolytic refining from 99.7%-pure copper anodes. These anodes contain impurities from ore concentrates, which are incorporated in the electrolyte along with …
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