外文翻译---用选择性氧化或溶解分离非金属矿物和硫化砷铜矿.docxVIP

Separation of enargite and tennantite from non-arsenic copper sulfide minerals by selective oxidation or dissolution D. Fornasiero , D. Fullston , C. Li, J. Ralston a Ian Wark Research Institute, the ARC Special Research Centre for Particle and Material Interfaces, Uniersity of South Australia, The Mawson Lakes Campus, Mawson Lakes, S.A. 5095,Australia Rio Tinto Technology Development, Research Ae., Bundoora, Vic., 3083, Australia Received 10 March 2000; accepted 19 July 2000 Abstract Selective oxidation of minerals was investigated as a means to separate by flotation the copper sulfide minerals of chalcocite, covellite and chalcopyrite from the arsenic copper sulfide minerals of enargite and tennantite in mixed mineral systems. It was found that a separation of these minerals could be feasible after selective oxidation of their surfaces in slightly acidic pH conditions, or after oxidation and selective dissolution of the surface oxidation products with a complexant in basic pH conditions. q2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Selective flotation; Copper sulfide minerals; Tennantite; Enargite; Oxidation; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy 1. Introduction Arsenic is an undesirable element that causes serious toxicological and environmental problems in smelting of arsenic-containing minerals e.g., Padilla et al., 1998; Dutr’e and Vandecasteele, 1995 . Although hydrometallurgy or pyrometallurgy could be used to remove this element, increasing severity of environmental legislation has resulted in a progressive reduction of the amount of arsenic allowable in processing bi-products（Morizot and Ollivier, 1993）. As a result, high financial penalties are imposed by smelters to treat copper ores containing higher than 0.2 wt.% arsenic （Wilson and Chanroux, 1993 . ） It would be more economically and environmentally beneficial to remove the mine