Patents Assigned to Glencore Technology Pty Ltd
  • Cathode and method of manufacturing
    Patent number: 11136683
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for manufacturing a cathode for electrolytic processes, the cathode comprising a conducting bar and a plate attached to the conducting bar, wherein the conducting bar has a conducting member attached thereto to increase the conductivity of the conducting bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Glencore Technology Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Jason Robert Cerezo
  • Method for the de-aeration of froths and foams
    Patent number: 10792593
    Abstract: A method for removing gas from a froth by supplying at least a portion of the froth from a vessel into a housing, providing a flow of fluid through the housing, introducing the froth into the fluid such that at least a portion of the gas in the froth is removed from the froth and entrained in the fluid to form a mixture of fluid and entrained gas and subsequently delivering the mixture to the vessel and/or another location within a processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: GLENCORE TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD
    Inventors: Peter Woodall, Daniel Smith, Brendan Scott Smith
  • Method for treating copper concentrates
    Patent number: 10781505
    Abstract: A method for the pyrometallurgical processing of a sulphide material containing copper, the sulphide containing relatively high quantities of silica and relatively low quantities of iron, wherein the process comprises feeding the sulphide material to a TSL furnace operated under oxidising conditions such that the sulphide material forms blister copper containing between 1.2 and 1.5 wt % sulphur and a slag containing between 7 and 13 wt % copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Glencore Technology Pty Ltd, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Stanko Nikolic, Chunlin Chen, Shafi Jahanshahi
  • Leaching of minerals
    Patent number: 10190193
    Abstract: A method for treating a mineral composition containing iron, arsenic or other Group VA compounds comprises milling the mineral composition to a particle size of P80 of less than 25 ?m and leaching the mineral composition in the presence of lime and/or limestone and a soluble alkali complexing agent and in the presence of an oxygen containing gas at a pH in the range of from 3.5 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: GLENCORE TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD
    Inventors: Michael Matthew Hourn, Daniel Mallah, Paul Voigt, Duncan Turner
  • METHOD FOR TREATING COPPER CONCENTRATES
    Publication number: 20180171433
    Abstract: A method for the pyrometallurgical processing of a sulphide material containing copper, the sulphide containing relatively high quantities of silica and relatively low quantities of iron, wherein the process comprises feeding the sulphide material to a TSL furnace operated under oxidising conditions such that the sulphide material forms blister copper containing between 1.2 and 1.5 wt % sulphur and a slag containing between 7 and 13 wt % copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: Glencore Technology Pty Ltd, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Stanko NIKOLIC, Chunlin CHEN, Sharif JAHANSHAHI