Abstract: Providing a method of recovering Cu from copper ore containing Hg. A method for recovering Cu from copper ore, the method comprising: (A) providing copper ore containing Hg with an amount of 0.2 ppm or more; (B) treating the copper ore to leach Cu and Hg with use of solution containing iodide ions and Fe (3+); and (C) treating post-leaching solution with activated carbon to absorb the iodide ions and Hg.

Abstract: In an embodiment, the present invention relates to an apparatus and a process for producing a concentrated form of basic zinc sulphate from a, typically dilute, acidic zinc sulphate-bearing solution. The process embodiment comprises the steps of precipitating the zinc, preferably primarily as basic zinc sulphate, from the acidic zinc sulphate solution, preferably using calcium oxide, in such a way as to promote the formation of separate gypsum crystals and basic zinc sulphate particles, and upgrading the zinc content in the precipitates by separating the basic zinc sulphate from the gypsum using size separation techniques.

Abstract: A method for leaching zinc from a zinc-bearing carbonate ore, the method comprising the steps of: subjecting the zinc-bearing carbonate ore to elevated temperatures of between about 300° C. and about 900° C. thereby producing a roasted ore; subjecting the roasted ore to an aqueous acid or alkali leach thereby producing an aqueous zinc solution; and subjecting the aqueous zinc solution to a zinc recovery step.

Abstract: A method of reduction treatment of metal oxides characterized by using as a material a powder containing metal oxides and containing alkali metals and halogen elements and further, in accordance with need, carbon, mixing said material with water to produce a slurry, then dehydrating this and charging the dehydrated material, mixed with another material in accordance with need, into a rotary hearth type reduction furnace for reduction.

Abstract: A method of reduction treatment of metal oxides characterized by using as a material a powder containing metal oxides and containing alkali metals and halogen elements and further, in accordance with need, carbon, mixing said material with water to produce a slurry, then dehydrating this and charging the dehydrated material, mixed with another material in accordance with need, into a rotary hearth type reduction furnace for reduction.

Abstract: The invention relates to method for leaching zinc-containing materials in connection with the electrolytic recovery of zinc. According to this method, the feed materials i.e. zinc calcine and zinc sulphide, are leached in three stages, in which he sulphuric acid content of the stages rises in accordance with the direction in which the solids are moving. The solids and solution formed in the leaching stages are routed throughout the process countercurrently in relation to each other.

Abstract: Both ends of a bulb of a waste fluorescent lamp are cut off, a phosphor layer formed on an interior surface of the bulb is detached, so that mercury-containing phosphor powder can be obtained. The mercury-containing phosphor powder is subjected to a heating and reducing process with the dry-method, by mixing an organic reducing agent with the phosphor powder and heating the mixture, to vaporize and separate mercury from the phosphor powder. The vaporized mercury is then cooled and condensed, to collect mercury.

Abstract: A method of extracting zinc from a sulphidic ore is provided which comprises bioleaching the ore in a heap with acidophilic microorganisms to produce a pregnant leach solution which is recovered from the bottom of the heap. An integrated process which comprises subjecting the pregnant leach solution to neutralization and solvent extraction to produce a concentrated zinc solution is also provided. Zinc may be recovered from the concentrated solution by means of electrowinning, either in the absence or presence of manganese. Alternatively zinc may be recovered in the form of a zinc compound.

Abstract: A method for treating steel works dust in order to recuperate elements capable of being upgraded. The method comprises attrition in water followed by hydraulic grading of the resulting load. The method is characterized in that is further comprises: a washing step to separate the water soluble saline fractions of the insoluble oxides; hot treatment to eliminate metals in the form of free oxides such as zinc and lead; treatment by heating at a temperature ranging between 240 and 800° C.; treatment with sulphuric acid having a concentration between 5 and 8%.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for recovering non-ferrous metals, particularly nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc, manganese and magnesium, from materials containing said metals by converting said non-ferrous metals into sulphates by means of melt and melt coating sulphation, i.e. by a thermal treatment under oxidizing conditions within a temperature range of 400 to 800° C., during which a reaction mixture is formed containing at least one said non-ferrous metal, iron(III)sulphate and alkali metal sulphate, and appropriate reaction conditions are selected to substantially prevent iron(III)sulphate from thermally decomposing to hematite, and finally, said non-ferrous metals are recovered as metallic compounds. In the method of the invention, a process is formed around the melt and melt coating sulphation, which comprises nine steps.

Abstract: A treating method of recovering zinc in the metal state from a waste containing the zinc in the oxide state, lead, chlorine, fluorine, and water comprising a mixing process 90 of obtaining a to-be-treated mixed material 70 by mixing a steel dust 7 and a reducing material 8 together; a chlorine recovery process 91 of recovering the chlorine and the water by heating the to-be-treated mixed material 70; a lead recovery process 92 of recovering fluorine and lead by heating the to-be-treated mixed material 70 under vacuum; a zinc recovery process 93 of recovering metallic zinc by heating the to-be-treated mixed material 70 at a temperature higher than that in the lead recovery process 92 with the vacuum state maintained so as to reduce and vaporize zinc; and a residue recovery process 94 of recovering a residue 79 of the to-be-treated mixed material 70. This construction allows the metallic zinc to be recovered at a high purity from a zinc oxide-containing waste and an on-site treatment to be accomplished.

Abstract: A method for processing hetrogeneous metal-containing deposits recovered from the cleaning of synthesis gas produced during the thermal treatment of wastes containing metals, including volatile metals, in equipment having a heating enclosure and a waste liquid container. The method comprises the steps of directing all of the liquids and residual solutions to the waste liquid container and directing all of the residual gases into the heating enclosure.

Abstract: A process is described for treating spent batteries of any type, comprising essentially the following stages:a) disintegrating the spent batteries in water to a piece size of less than 7 mm followed by stirring in water, then screening to obtain a pulverlent aqueous turbid fraction (underscreen fraction) and a coarse fraction (overscreen fraction);b) stirring the pulverulent aqueous turbid fraction at a pH of between 7 and 8, followed by filtering by which the solids are separated from the aqueous solution, which is fed to water treatment;c) removing mercury both from the coarse fraction of point a) and from the separated solids of point b) in an indirectly heated continuously rotating mercury removal furnace operating in total absence of air and to which calcium hydroxide has been added, to obtain residues essentially free of mercury.

Abstract: A process is described for the recovery, in metallic form, of mercury present in roasting gases, containing SO.sub.2, so that the purified gas has less than 0.1 mg/m3 of this element. Essentially, the system consists of a conventional device for the cooling and scrubbing of the gas; two irrigated towers with an acid solution of Hg(SCN).sub.4.sup.2- free SCN.sup.- and active carbon; two wet electrostatic precipitators, one in front of the first tower and another between them and a reactor for scrubbing the emulsion (soot) obtained from the condensation, with ammonium. All mercury-bearing tailings are recycled to the roasting oven at appropriate intervals, until under certain conditions the hot gases attain a mercury content of more than 40 mg/m3.

Abstract: The process is described for treating the sludge formed in a phosphate conversion bath, and in particular, in zinc phosphate conversion baths to convert the sludge into useful chemical materials thereby eliminating the need for disposal to landfill. The process comprises the steps of(A) recovering the solid by-products from the used phosphating solution;(B) treating the solid by-products with an aqueous base at a pH of greater than 10 to form a first aqueous phase and a metal-containing precipitate;(C) recovering the metal-containing precipitate from the first aqueous phase as a first product of the process;(D) acidifying the first aqueous phase obtained in (C) to a from about 7 to about 10 to form a second aqueous phase and an insoluble metal-containing precipitate;(E) recovering the solid metal-containing precipitate from the second aqueous phase as a second product of the process; and(F) recovering the second aqueous phase as a third product of the invention.