The detoxification and utilization of cyanide tailings: A critical review

K Dong, F Xie, W Wang, Y Chang, D Lu, X Gu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cyanide tailings are industrial hazardous solid wastes arising from gold mining industry.
Hundreds of millions of tons of cyanide tailings that contain highly toxic cyanides and …

Recent chemical methods for metals recovery from printed circuit boards: A review

EA Oke, H Potgieter - Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 2024 - Springer
As the volume of e-waste continues to rise, it is crucial to sustainably manage printed circuit
boards (PCBs) and their valuable metal components. PCBs are ubiquitous in modern …

Gold extraction using alternatives to cyanide: Ultrasonic reinforcement and its leaching kinetics

Q Gui, L Fu, Y Hu, H Di, M Liang, S Wang, L Zhang - Minerals Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel eco-friendly synthetic gold lixiviant (Jinchan) was used to recover gold from gold
ores. Ultrasound was used to improve gold leaching efficiency and recovery percentage …

Application and mechanism analysis of functionalized ionic liquids in copper regeneration from electroplating sludge

F Li, X Xu, C Cao, Z Yang, G Wang, T Li, Y Pu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrometallurgy is the main method to regenerate valuable metals from electroplating
sludge and reduce its environmental hazards. As a key step to efficiently recover metals, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent leaching of copper and cobalt from a copper–cobalt ore using sulfuric and organic acids

EA Oke, H Potgieter, F Mondlane, NP Skosana… - Minerals …, 2024 - Elsevier
A study involving the leaching of Cu and Co from a Cusingle bondCo ore in sulfuric acid (H
2 SO 4), citric acid (CA) and oxalic acid (OA) using hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) as oxidant …

Gold leaching from an oxide ore using thiocyanate as a lixiviant: process optimization and kinetics

A Azizitorghabeh, H Mahandra, J Ramsay… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Thiocyanate (SCN–) is a promising alternative to cyanide as a lixiviant for gold extraction
and is 1000 times less toxic than cyanide. In this study, the following leaching parameters …

Magnesium recovery from ferrochrome slag: kinetics and possible use in a circular economy

LB Moyo, GS Simate, TA Mamvura - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
The ever-increasing demand for ferrochrome alloys has resulted in a substantial
accumulation of ferrochrome slag by-products in many mining areas. On the other hand, the …

[HTML][HTML] Electro-hydrometallurgical chloride process for selective gold recovery from refractory telluride gold ores: A mini-pilot study

I Korolev, P Altinkaya, M Haapalainen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current paper introduces for the very first time recently invented electrodeposition-redox
replacement (EDRR) method in continuous leaching-recovery-solution purification process …

The kinetics of pyrite dissolution in nitric acid solution

S Teimouri, JH Potgieter, L van Dyk, C Billing - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Refractory sulphidic ore with gold captured in pyrite has motivated researchers to find
efficient means to break down pyrite to make gold accessible and, ultimately, improve gold …

Accelerating gold extraction from refractory gold tailings via NH4HF2 pre-treatment

Y Lin, X Hu, F Zi, S Chen, Y Chen, P Yang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gold tailings are secondary resources, however, a suitable method to extract the remaining
gold has not yet been found. Thus, this study investigated that a gold tailings was pretreated …