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Cyanide recovery
Assignee: Crane Co
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Filing: 1980-08-08
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Granted: 1981-05-12
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Expires: 2000-08-08
Abstract
Abstract Spent aqueous liquor containing cyanide, as from ore treatment, is passed through a bed of suitable anion-exchange resin to segregate the cyanide, which is subsequently recovered in regeneration of the resin by weak alkaline solution. Both the eluted cyanide and the alkaline regenerant are recycled, if desired, for further ore treatment. A most important benefit of such procedure is nearly complete elimination of cyanide as a component of the treatment effluent. Free cyanide may be separated from complexed cyanides when present by using weak alkaline regenerant to elute the free cyanide from the resin and stronger alkaline regenerant to elute the complexed cyanides.
Inventors
- 👤 George J. Crits
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-07 12:20
CPC Classifications
C; C22; C22B; C22B3/00; C22B3/20; C22B3/42; B; B01; B01J; B01J41/00; B01J41/04; B01J41/05; B01J49/00; B01J49/05; B01J49/07; C01; C01C; C01C3/00; C01C3/08; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P10/00; Y02P10/20; Y10; Y10S; Y10S210/00; Y10S210/902; Y10S210/903; Y10S210/904
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
80 words
In treatment of particulate ore with aqueous liquor comprising cyanide to segregate minerals therefrom, wherein spent aqueous liquor is discharged subsequently, the improvement comprising the steps of passing the spent liquor through a bed of Type II strong-base anion-exchange resin and thereby removing and retaining cyanide present in the liquor, subsequently passing weak alkaline regenerant solution through the bed and thereby eluting cyanide therefrom and regenerating the resin, and recycling the regenerant solution with eluted cyanide for further ore treatment.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
80 words
In treatment of particulate ore with aqueous liquor comprising cyanide to segregate minerals therefrom, wherein spent aqueous liquor is discharged subsequently, the improvement comprising the steps of passing the spent liquor through a bed of Type II strong-base anion-exchange resin and thereby removing and retaining cyanide present in the liquor, subsequently passing weak alkaline regenerant solution through the bed and thereby eluting cyanide therefrom and regenerating the resin, and recycling the regenerant solution with eluted cyanide for further ore treatment.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
19 words
Ore treatment according to claim 1, wherein the original aqueous treating liquor and the regenerant solution both comprise lime.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
Ore treatment according to claim 1, wherein the resin has a divinyl benzene/styrene standard cross-linked substructure plus dimethyl ethanolamine for functionality.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
38 words
Ore treatment according to claim 1, including the step of discharging from the bed of anion-exchange resin an effluent resulting from flow of spent liquor thereinto, having the effluent cyanide concentration reduced to about one-tenth part per million.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
Ore treatment according to claim 4, wherein the concentration of cyanide in the spent liquor before passing through the resin bed is at least about 100 times as great.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
61 words
Process of treating spent aqueous liquor comprising cyanide, as from ore treatment, comprising passing the spent liquor through a bed of Type II anion-exchange resin and discharging the effluent therefrom to waste so long as the cyanide leakage is within tolerance, next backwashing the resin bed, then regenerating the resin by flowing an aqueous solution comprising weak alkali through the bed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
61 words
Process of treating spent aqueous liquor comprising cyanide, as from ore treatment, comprising passing the spent liquor through a bed of Type II anion-exchange resin and discharging the effluent therefrom to waste so long as the cyanide leakage is within tolerance, next backwashing the resin bed, then regenerating the resin by flowing an aqueous solution comprising weak alkali through the bed.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
29 words
Ion-exchange process according to claim 6, repeated in recycling manner and wherein at intervals of from about one dozen to several dozen cycles the regenerant solution comprises strong alkali.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
33 words
Ion-exchange process according to claim 7, wherein the weak alkali regeneration steps remove free cyanide from the resin and wherein the strong alkali regeneration step removes complexed cyanide as well from the resin.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
20 words
Ion-exchange process according to claim 6, wherein the tolerance for cyanide in the effluent is about one-tenth part per million.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
20 words
Ion-exchange process according to claim 9, wherein free cyanide concentration is reduced by a factor of at least about 100.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
16 words
Ion-exchange process according to claim 10, wherein complexed cyanide concentration is reduced to a like degree.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
70 words
Process of separating free and complexed cyanide anions from aqueous liquor containing both, comprising passing such aqueous liquor through a bed of Type II anion-exchange resin and thereby segregating the cyanides from the effluent from the bed, passing weak base or salt solution at intervals through the bed and thereby eluting the free cyanide, then passing strong base or salt solution through the bed and thereby eluting the complexed cyanide.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
70 words
Process of separating free and complexed cyanide anions from aqueous liquor containing both, comprising passing such aqueous liquor through a bed of Type II anion-exchange resin and thereby segregating the cyanides from the effluent from the bed, passing weak base or salt solution at intervals through the bed and thereby eluting the free cyanide, then passing strong base or salt solution through the bed and thereby eluting the complexed cyanide.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
27 words
Cyanide separation process according to claim 12, wherein lime solution is used to elute the free cyanide, and caustic solution is used to elute the complexed cyanide.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
35 words
Cyanide separation process according to claim 13, including the step of collecting the eluted free cyanide and lime solution at a first location, and collecting the complexed cyanide and caustic solution at a second location.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
36 words
Cyanide separation process according to claim 14, wherein at the first location the eluted cyanide and lime solution is used in ore treatment, and at the second location the complexed cyanide is destroyed by chemical treatment.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
28 words
Cyanide separation process according to claim 12, wherein the elutriant for the free cyanide comprises dilute caustic, and the elutriant for the complexed cyanide comprises more concentrated caustic.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
31 words
Cyanide separation process according to claim 16, wherein the dilute caustic is at most 0.01 molar and the more concentrated caustic is at least about 10 to 30 times as concentrated.
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