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Solid-Liquid-Solid Hydrometallurgical Process for Dissolving Metals from Copper Sulfide Minerals and/or Concentrates

This is a solid-liquid-solid hydrometallurgical process that takes place under supersaturation conditions with the presence of hydrated and/or non-hydrated salts. It is achieved through deliberate and repeated cycles of drying and wetting steps, which intensify the chemical and physical phenomena on the minerals or concentrates, thereby triggering the crystallization, recrystallization, and release of copper during the non-stoichiometric decomposition of sulfides and the subsequent precipitation with chlorides.The process consists of three key steps:

1、Wetting

2、Drying and Supersaturation

3、Washing and Rewetting

All steps are conducted at temperatures ranging from 20 to 40 °C regardless of the redox potential. It minimizes water and acid consumption without requiring additional oxygen input.

This process enables reduced water and acid usage because sulfide conversion can occur solely in the presence of hydrated salts or with only minimal additions of acid and water. Moreover, it allows for less water consumption during agglomeration and/or agglomeration-curing steps. When hydrated salts are mixed with the minerals, the water molecules bound in hydrated salts pre-wet the ore particles, cutting down the amount of extra water that needs to be added during wetting, agglomeration and curing stages.

This process is also applicable to base metal sulfides including nickel, zinc, cobalt, lead, molybdenum and others, unaffected by the common impurities in sulfide minerals, such as the presence of arsenic.

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