CSIR Central

Interactions between marmatite and bornite during the oxidative dissolution process in abiotic and biotic systems

IR@NML: CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Interactions between marmatite and bornite during the oxidative dissolution process in abiotic and biotic systems
 
Creator Zhang, Yanjun
Zhao, Hongbo
Zhang, Yisheng
Qian, Lu
Zhang, Luyuan
Meng, Xiaoyu
Lv, Xin
Abhilash,
Janjua, Hussnain Ahned
Qiu, Guanzhou
 
Subject Hydrometallurgy
Minerals and Mining
Waste Management
 
Description Marmatite and bornite are commonly associated together in nature, and their interactions in an acidic environment are vital for both (bio)hydrometallurgy and acid mine drainage (AMD) production. In this work, dissolution experiments (marmatite : bornite ΒΌ 2 : 0, 3 : 1, 1 : 1, 1 : 3 and 0 : 2) accompanied by analytic techniques such as electrochemical methods, Raman spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation- XRD (SR-XRD) were utilized to interpret the interactions between marmatite and bornite in acidic abiotic and biotic systems. The dissolution experiments showed that marmatite can significantly accelerate the oxidative dissolution of bornite, especially in the abiotic system. On the contrary, bornite inhibited the oxidative dissolution of marmatite when the percentage of bornite was high. Electrochemical measurements proved that the galvanic interactions between marmatite and bornite were slight and should not be the main cause for the interactions. Combined with the dissolution experiments, analytic techniques and previous references, it could be speculated that marmatite accelerated bornite dissolution mainly by providing an iron source, which acted as the energy source for microorganisms and oxidants. Bornite affected the dissolution of marmatite mainly by Cu2+ ions dissolving from bornite. Bornite inhibited the oxidative dissolution of marmatite mainly because a high Cu2+ concentration could significantly hinder marmatite dissolution. In addition, the formation of elemental sulfur or jarosite was also one important cause. Bornite intensified marmatite dissolution when the percentage of bornite or the Cu2+ concentration was extremely low and then, a synergic dissolution process occurred.
 
Publisher RSC
 
Date 2019-07-28
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://eprints.nmlindia.org/7890/1/RSC_2019.pdf
Zhang, Yanjun and Zhao, Hongbo and Zhang, Yisheng and Qian, Lu and Zhang, Luyuan and Meng, Xiaoyu and Lv, Xin and Abhilash, and Janjua, Hussnain Ahned and Qiu, Guanzhou (2019) Interactions between marmatite and bornite during the oxidative dissolution process in abiotic and biotic systems. RSC Advances, 9 (IF-3.51). pp. 26609-26618.
 
Relation http://10.1039/c9ra03658j
http://eprints.nmlindia.org/7890/