Metal leaching from a low-grade nickel ore was investigated using an ammonium sulfate roasting-water leaching process. The nickel ore was mixed with ammonium sulfate, followed by roasting and finally leaching with water. During the process the effects of the amount of ammonium sulfate, roasting temperature, and roasting time on the leaching recovery of metal …

The leaching result of ores roasted contains higher Ni (4.80%) than raw ore (4.17%). The roasting temperature of 600°C appears to provide the maximum nickel recovery of 93.48%. In addition, the maximum nickel recovery is affected by the concentration of H 2 SO 4 .

The effect of roasting the ore prior to leaching was investigated using optimum conditions obtained when leaching the unroasted ore. There was a slight improvement in nickel extraction when the ore was roasted. The average percentage extraction of nickel from 3 experimental runs was 19.25%±0.19 at 100oC, 3M NH 3, 2M (NH 4) 2 CO 3

Nickel is extracted from the ore by a variety of process routes. Hydrometallurgical processes include high-pressure acid leach (HPAL) and heap leach, both of which are generally followed by solvent extraction - electrowinning for recovery of nickel. Another hydrometallurgical routes is the Caron process, which consists of roasting followed by ...

Nickel carriers in laterite ores and their influence on the mechanism of nickel extraction by sulfation-roasting-leaching process Miner Eng, 131 ( 2019 ), pp. 90 - 97, 10.1016/j.mineng.2018.10.022

The sulfation-roasting-leaching process has the potential to change this scenario once it can be applied to all kinds of nickel laterite ores and does not consume much acid, as in the atmospheric ...

12%Abstract Nickel is mostly extracted from sulfide ores, however, laterite ores account for over 60 pct of all nickel resources in the world, and despite its predominance, there is no well-established process to extract nickel from such ores. Nickel in laterites is hosted in many different compounds such as oxides, hydroxides, and silicates minerals. The sulfation-roasting-leaching …

Abstract Nickel is mostly extracted from sulfide ores, however, laterite ores account for over 60 pct of all nickel resources in the world, and despite its predominance, there is no well-established process to extract nickel from such ores. Nickel in laterites is hosted in many different compounds such as oxides, hydroxides, and silicates minerals. The sulfation-roasting-leaching process has ...

application of alkali roasting as pretreatment in laterite ore leaching to increase nickel recovery. Thus, this study aims to apply the combination method of alkali roasting and leaching to extract nickel from limonite ore (1.33% Ni, 46.61% Fe) from the Southeast Sulawesi region. Three alkali compounds were

Sulfation roasting, a common activation technique, is a potential method for cleaner production of nickel from complex low-grade ores. In this study, nickel oxide–sulfide mixed ore concentrate was roasted with the addition of ammonium sulfate under a static air atmosphere, and the roasted products were leached by water, in order to evaluate the extraction of metals.

As is shown in Fig. 5, the nickel leaching rate of ore roasted at 610 °C is the maximum. The order of leaching rate can be well in accord with the order of specific surface area. 4. ConclusionsThe results suggest that roasting temperature can have a significant effect on the nickel metal recovery because it mainly exists in goethite phase ...

Separation of nickel and iron from lateritic ore using digestion-roasting-leaching-precipitation 569 As result, significant amounts of nickel, cobalt and iron were transformed to metal sulfate forms, which can be leached in water easily.

Copper-Nickel Ore Processing. A nickel-copper sulphide concentrate was treated in a pilot plant at Warren Spring Laboratory during 1961, by a hydrometallurgical roast-leach-solvent extraction process devised to cleanly separate the metal values, and produce acid sulphate liquors containing the metals. It is shown that 86 percent of the nickel ...

The sulfation-roasting-leaching process has the potential to change this scenario once it can be applied to all kinds of nickel laterite ores and does not consume much acid, as in the atmospheric leaching process. The main characteristic of the process is the iron sulfates decomposition during roasting steps, which produces sulfur trioxide (SO3).

Keywords: nickel recovery, laterite ore, leaching, calcination, kinetics 1. Introduction Nickel is an important metal used for a wide variety of applications. The world's various deposits of nickel are in the forms of sulfide and oxide (laterites) ores. Currently, the majority of nickel is obtained