Purification of bismuthinite concentrate by selective electro-oxidation of molybdenite》.pdf

Hydrometallurgy 154 (2015) 95–101 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Hydrometallurgy journal homepage: www. /locate/hydromet Purification of bismuthinite concentrate by selective electro-oxidation of molybdenite Zhan-fang Cao a,⁎, Ming-ming Wang a, Hong Zhong a,⁎, Na Chen a, Liu-yin Xia b, Fan Fan a, Guang-yi Liu a, Shuai Wang a a College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, PR China b Surface Science Western, Research Park, University of Western Ontario, 999 Collip Cir., London, ON, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The flotation separation is the general method to recover molybdenite from a concentration containing molyb- Received 5 July 2014 denite and bismuthinite, although the whole circuit could be long and complicated. In this paper, a novel selective Received in revised form 31 March 2015 electro-oxidation of molybdenite process has been introduced and systematically investigated for bismuthinite Accepted 5 April 2015 purification. It was found that Mo could be selectively separated by the electro-oxidation method under the con- Available online 11 April 2015 ditions of pH not less than 9.0 and the applied potential at between 3.0 V and 4.0 V, by this circumstance Bi was hard to extract. The effects of NaCl concentration, liquid/solid ratio and stirring speed on electro-oxidation Keywords: Molybdenite leaching were investigated. Optimum