Cobalt Flotation Recovery
Cobalt Flotation Studies were conducted on ores from the Viburnum trend in southeast Missouri. The Viburnum trend deposits occur along the flank of the St. Francois Mountains. Ores of the Viburnum trend are characteristically complex mixtures of the sulfide minerals galena, PbS; sphalerite, ZnS; chalcopyrite, CuFeS2; pyrite, FeS2; marcasite, FeS2; and the cobalt-nickel mineral siegenite, […]
Cobalt Beneficiation Technique
Objective Develop new technolgies and techniques which enable recovery of strategic and critical minerals such as cobalt from domestic resources, thereby easing the U.S. dependence upon foreign producers for these valuable commodities. Approach The Bureau of Mines, through research, developed a process which uses mineral beneficiation techniques to recover cobalt-rich products from Missouri lead ores. […]
Sulfide Ore Treatment Gold – Silver – Copper – Cobalt – Zinc Recovery
A procedure was developed for recovering gold, silver, cobalt, copper, and zinc from a massive sulfide ore by a hydro-metallurgical process. The procedure consists of (1) oxygen pressure leaching; (2) iron, arsenic, and copper removal from the leach solution by precipitation; (3) selective extraction of cobalt and zinc from solution; (4) electro-deposition of the cobalt […]
Silver & Cobalt Processing by Gravity and Flotation
The treatment of complex silver cobalt ores occurring with antimony and arsenic require special metallurgical processing to produce concentrates most advantageous for smelting. Gravity concentration is used to initially recover a high percentage of the native silver and cobalt. The concentrate is marketed and payment received for these constituents. Flotation treatment of the gravity tailing […]