Method for enriching noble metal from noble antimony alloy
The invention relates to a hydrometallurgical process in the field of metallurgy, in particular to a hydrometallurgical method for effectively enriching noble metals from noble antimony alloys.
The prior treatment method of the precious antimony comprises the steps of oxidizing and converting, volatilizing a part of antimony in the form of antimonous oxide to obtain precious antimony alloy (also called the precious antimony) with further enriched precious metals, carrying out antimony electrolysis on the precious antimony alloy, enriching the precious metals, feeding the precious metals into antimony electrolysis anode mud, leaching the anode mud with nitric acid to remove copper, nickel and lead, carrying out crucible furnace smelting on nitric acid leaching slag, and finally carrying out muffle furnace converting to produce crude gold (see ① Beijing nonferrous metal design research institute, general institute, and the like, a heavy nonferrous metals design handbook (antimony mercury precious metals), p 641-646, published by metallurgy industry publishers in 1995, ② Yang Tianzu, and the like, further processing precious metal metallurgy and products, and published by Zhongnan university publishers in p 351-355, 2005).
The treatment method of the precious antimony alloy (rich in precious antimony) has the following disadvantages:
1) when the content of other metals (such as copper, nickel, lead and the like) in the noble antimony alloy is high, the electrolysis of antimony cannot be normally carried out, and noble metals gold and silver are difficult to enter antimony electrolysis anode mud;
2) the process has more returned slag, the crucible furnace smelting and the muffle furnace blowing both produce slag with higher gold content, the slag is added into the relevant smelting process as return materials, and the direct recovery rate of the noble metal is low;
3) the process of enriching the noble metal is alternated between a fire method and a wet method, the process is more, and the mechanical loss of the material containing the noble metal is larger;
4) the process of enriching the noble metals produces more pollutants. Nitric acid digestion produces nitrogen oxide containing tail gas, and smelting and converting process produces smoke containing antimony and lead.
The invention provides a method for enriching noble metals, which can effectively remove impurity metals such as antimony, copper, nickel, lead and the like at one time and basically has no pollution in the process, so as to overcome the defects of the existing noble antimony alloy treatment method.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for achieving the aim is as follows: mixing the noble antimony alloy powder, hydrochloric acid and sodium chloride according to a certain proportion, controlling the potential of the solution at a certain temperature, carrying out oxidation leaching by using hydrogen peroxide, filtering the leaching solution in a hot state after the reaction is finished, washing filter residues by using a hydrochloric acid solution with a certain concentration and water with a certain temperature to obtain a noble metal-enriched powder product, and recovering other valuable metals by reducing and hydrolyzing the leaching solution and the washing water.
The specific technological process and technological parameters are as follows:
1. leaching out
Crushing and grinding the noble antimony alloy into powder with the particle size of 0.074-0.25 mm, and slurrying with hydrochloric acid and sodium chloride solution. And (3) measuring the potential of the system by using a platinum electrode as a working electrode and a saturated potassium chloride calomel electrode as a reference electrode, and adding hydrogen peroxide under the condition of controlling the end point potential of the system to be 200-450 mV. The leaching temperature is 35-90 ℃, the concentration of hydrochloric acid is 1.5-5.5 mol/L, the concentration of sodium chloride is 0-2 mol/L, the solid-to-liquid ratio (weight ratio) of leaching solution is 3-10: 1, the amount of hydrogen peroxide is 0.7-1.4 times of the weight of the nobleantimony alloy powder, and the reaction time is 2-6 hours.
The chemical reaction that takes place during leaching is:
2. washing machine
And washing leaching residues obtained after leaching reaction for 2-3 times at 70-85 ℃ by using hydrochloric acid with the concentration of 1.5-5.5 mol/L and the weight-liquid-solid ratio of 2-10. After acid washing, washing with 100-200 times of leached residue (weight) and hot water at 70-95 ℃ for 5-10 times. Dissolving lead chloride in leaching residues in hot water:
3. reduction of
Leaching the precious antimony alloy powder to obtain a leaching solution, adding the precious antimony alloy powder with the leaching solution amount of 1-2% (by weight) at the temperature of 40-90 ℃, and reducing for 2-5 hours. The main chemical reactions that take place during the reduction process are:
4. hydrolysis
The leachate reduced by the stibium-rich alloy powder is treated with NH at the temperature of 30-85 DEG C4HCO3、Na2CO3Or NaOH is used for adjusting the pH value to 0-3 for 2-6 hours. Hydrolysis of antimony occurs, the main chemical reaction being:
the hydrochloric acid, sodium chloride, hydrogen peroxide, ammonium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide are all industrial reagents.
The invention is suitable for processing the precious antimony alloy (rich precious antimony) produced by smelting antimony gold concentrate, and the component range is as follows (%): 30-85 parts of Sb, 15-45 parts of Pb, 8-29 parts of Cu, 0-10 parts of Ni, 0.07-3.5 parts of Au, 0.02-0.08 part of Ag, 0.5-5 parts of As0.5 and 0.5-2 parts of Fe; it is also suitable for treating anode mud produced by electrolyzing high-antimony lead.
Compared with the traditional pyrometallurgical treatment process of the noble antimony alloy, the method has the following advantages: 1, controlling the potential of the noble antimony alloy powder in a hydrochloric acid and sodium chloride solution to dissolve metals such as antimony, copper, nickel, lead and the like, and pickling and washing leached residues with hot water to obtain crude gold powder with the gold grade of over 75 percent, so that the processes of electrolysis of the noble antimony alloy, nitric acid digestion of anode mud, crucible furnace smelting and muffle furnace converting are omitted, and the production period of gold is shortened; 2, the recovery rate of gold enriched in the crude gold powder in the treatment process is more than 99.95 percent, no gold-containing intermediate slag is produced, and the direct recovery rate of gold is high; 3, harmful gas and smoke are not produced in the process of leaching out and removing impurity metals such as copper, nickel, antimony, lead and the like, and waste liquid after metal extraction can be discharged after treatment, thereby being beneficial to environmental protection; 4, the labor intensity is low; 5 the invention has low comprehensive cost.
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FIG. 1: the invention is a process flow diagram.
Detailed Description
Example 1: the noble antimony alloy is ground until the granularity is 100 percent and is less than 0.149mm, and the main components thereof (%) are Sb 46.30, Pb 21.95, Cu 19.62, Ni 3.13, As 0.50, Fe 0.87 and Au 22226.5g/t Ag2840.5g/t; technical grade hydrochloric acid, wherein the HCl concentration (%) is 31.95% (10.14 mol/L); industrial grade sodium chloride with a NaCl content of 91.38%; technical grade hydrogen peroxide, H thereof2O2The content of (B) was 32.3%. Adding 320Lof water into a 1000L enamel reaction kettle, then adding 330L of industrial hydrochloric acid and 50kg of industrial sodium chloride of the components, installing a potential measuring device, starting stirring, heating the reaction kettle to the reaction temperature of 60 ℃, and adding the precious antimony alloy powder of the components. After stirring for 30 minutes, the technical peroxide of the above components is addedWhen the indicated value of the potential was 380mV, the addition of hydrogen peroxide was stopped. Stirring is continued, after 40 minutes, the potential indicated value is 340mV, hydrogen peroxide is added, the potential is adjusted to 380mV, and the temperature is maintained for 1 hour. The amount of hydrogen peroxide used was 91 kg. Discharging the slurry from the reaction kettle under stirring and thermal state, and vacuumizing and filtering by using a plastic filter barrel. After the filtration is finished, the filtrate is transferred into a storage tank while the filtrate is hot. 130L of industrial hydrochloric acid and 170L of water of the components are mixed and heated to 80 ℃, and the hot hydrochloric acid solution is divided into three times to wash leaching residues. And (4) transferring the washed acid to an acid washing storage tank when the acid is hot. 500L of water was heated to 85 ℃ and the leached residue after acid washing was washed 9 times. The washing water is transferred into a washing water storage tank when the washing water is hot. And transferring the leached residues out of the plastic filter barrel, and drying in an oven at the temperature of 150 ℃. The weight of the dried crude gold powder is 3100g, the gold content is 73.90%, and the silver content is 1.92%. The components of the leaching solution are as follows (g/L): sb 64.30, Pb 4.11, Cu 27.32, Ni 5.06, Au 3.10mg/L, Ag190mg/L and the volume of 730L, and the recovery rate of gold is 99.90 percent based on the content of gold in the leachate.
Cooling the leachate in a leachate storage tank to 40 ℃, filtering the precipitated lead chloride, pumping the filtrate into a 1000L enamel reaction kettle, heating to 80 ℃, adding 15kg of the antimony-rich alloy powder, stirring, reacting for 2 hours, cooling to 35 ℃, and filtering. The components of the reduced solution are as follows (g/L): sb 67.90, Pb 4.62, Cu26.08, Ni 5.38, Au 3.15mg/L, Ag 25mg/L, and the silver reduction rate is 89.47%.
Transferring the reduced leachate into 2m3And the pH value of the reaction kettle is adjusted to 2 by adding the industrial sodium carbonate under stirring at normal temperature. Filtering to obtain antimony hydrolysis residue and hydrolyzed solution. The hydrolysis residue (dry) contains 65.68% of antimony and 1.78% of lead. The hydrolyzed solution contains (g/L) Sb 0.30, Pb 2.51, Cu 25.87, Ni5.23 and Ag 11.15mg/L, and the hydrolysis recovery rate of antimony is 99.56 percent based on the antimony content of the hydrolyzed solution.