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Separation of platinum group metals and gold
Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR METALLURGY
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Filing: 1975-08-01
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Granted: 1976-10-12
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Expires: 1995-08-01
Abstract
Abstract A method of separating gold from palladium or at least one of gold and palladium from solutions containing the chloride complexes of at least the relevant ones of these metals together with other platinum group metals and wherein base metals may be present in the solution said method comprising contacting the solution for a sufficient length of time to result in extracting of substantially all the required gold and for palladium values present therein, with a suitable quantity of a water insoluble non-volatile solvent extractant in an organic phase and having functional groups of the formula R1-S-R wherein R1 and R may be the same or different and have a carbon atom thereof joined directly to the sulphur atom; R1 and R being chosen so that neither of them have active functional groups capable of acting as ion exchangers or complexing groups and thereafter separating the two phases and recovering the extracted gold and palladium.
Inventors
- 👤 Roderick Ivan Edwards
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-07 14:32
CPC Classifications
C; C01; C01G; C01G7/00; C01G7/003; B; B01; B01D; B01D11/00; B01D11/04; B01D11/0492; C01G55/00; C01G55/001; C22; C22B; C22B3/00; C22B3/20; C22B3/26; C22B3/34; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P10/00; Y02P10/20
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 23
Claim 1
Independent Claim
153 words
A method of separating at least one of gold and palladium from solutions containing the chloride complexes of at least the relevant one of these metals together with other platinum group metals and wherein base metals may be present in the solution said method comprising contacting the solution for a sufficient length of time to result in extraction of substantially all the required gold and palladium values present therein, with a suitable quantity of a water-insoluble non-volatile solvent extractant in an organic phase and having functional groups of the formula R 1 --S--R wherein R 1 and R may be the same or different and have a carbon atom thereof joined directly to the sulphur atom; R 1 and R being chosen so that neither of them have active functional groups capable of acting as ion exchangers or complexing groups and thereafter separating the two phases and recovering the extracted gold and palladium.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
153 words
A method of separating at least one of gold and palladium from solutions containing the chloride complexes of at least the relevant one of these metals together with other platinum group metals and wherein base metals may be present in the solution said method comprising contacting the solution for a sufficient length of time to result in extraction of substantially all the required gold and palladium values present therein, with a suitable quantity of a water-insoluble non-volatile solvent extractant in an organic phase and having functional groups of the formula R 1 --S--R wherein R 1 and R may be the same or different and have a carbon atom thereof joined directly to the sulphur atom; R 1 and R being chosen so that neither of them have active functional groups capable of acting as ion exchangers or complexing groups and thereafter separating the two phases and recovering the extracted gold and palladium.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
A process as claimed in claim 1 in which both gold and palladium are co-extracted from a solution containing other platinum group metals and optionally base metals.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method as claimed in claim 2 in which adsorbed gold and palladium are recovered from the extractant by stripping with an acidic solution of thiourea.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
21 words
A process as claimed in claim 1 in which gold is substantially absent from said solution and palladium alone is extracted.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method as claimed in claim 4 in which adsorbed palladium is recovered from the extractant by stripping with aqueous ammonia solution.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
A method as claimed in claim 5 in which metallic palladium is produced by precipitating from the strip solution, a tetra-ammine complex of palladium and calcining the precipitate.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
A process as claimed in claim 1 in which platinum is present in the solution.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 in which adsorbed gold and/or palladium is recovered by stripping the extractant.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 in which R and R 1 are independently of each other, each aryl, alkyl or aralkyl with not more than 20 carbon atoms in each case.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 in which R and R 1 are both alkyl with not more than 20 carbon atoms in each case.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
18 words
A method as claimed in claim 10 in which the extractant is di-n-decyl-sulphide, di-n-hexyl sulphide or methyl-n-decyl sulphide.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 in which the loaded extractant is washed prior to recovery of the gold and palladium.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
16 words
A method as claimed in claim 12 in which washing is effected using dilute HCl solution.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 in which the extractant is an organic solvent comprising a diluent and an active thioether as defined.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
38 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 in which selenium is present in the initial solution and is either removed prior to contacting or is oxidized to Se + 4 , but preferably to Se + 6 .
Claim 17
Independent Claim
133 words
A method of separating gold and palladium from each other in which the two metals are present in a solution in the form of their chloride complexes, said method comprising contacting the solution for a sufficient length of time to result in the extraction of substantially all the gold present therein, with a suitable quantity of a water-insoluble non-volatile solvent extractant in an organic phase and having functional groups of the formula R 1 --S--R wherein R 1 and R may be the same or different and have a carbon atom thereof joined directly to the sulphur atom R 1 and R being chosen so that neither of them have active functional groups capable of acting as ion exchangers or complexing groups and thereafter separating the two phases and recovering the extracted gold.
Claim 18
Independent Claim
133 words
A method of separating gold and palladium from each other in which the two metals are present in a solution in the form of their chloride complexes, said method comprising contacting the solution for a sufficient length of time to result in the extraction of substantially all the gold present therein, with a suitable quantity of a water-insoluble non-volatile solvent extractant in an organic phase and having functional groups of the formula R 1 --S--R wherein R 1 and R may be the same or different and have a carbon atom thereof joined directly to the sulphur atom R 1 and R being chosen so that neither of them have active functional groups capable of acting as ion exchangers or complexing groups and thereafter separating the two phases and recovering the extracted gold.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
17 words
A method as claimed in claim 16 in which adsorbed gold is recovered by stripping the extractant.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
25 words
A method as claimed in claim 16 in which the adsorbed gold is recovered by stripping the extractant with a basic solution of sodium sulphite.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method as claimed in claim 6 in which either R or R 1 is a branched alkyl radical having a tertiary carbon atom in the a-position.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
23 words
A method as claimed in claim 19 in which R and R 1 represent, respectively, tertiary-butyl and a straight-chain alkyl group, preferably decyl.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method as claimed in claim 16 in which the loaded extractant is washed prior to recovery of the gold.
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