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    2) United States Patent Sato et al. (54) METHOD OF LEACHING COPPER ORE (71) Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, Tokyo UP) om Katsuyuki Sato, Hitachi (QP); Manabu Manabe, Tokyo UP) Inventors (73) Assignoe: JX Nippon Mining & Metals ‘Corporation, Tokyo UP) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the teem ofthis pateat is extended or adjusted under 38 USC. 154(b) by O days Appl. Now 137765,729 (22) Filed: Feb. 13,2013 Prior Publication Data US 201302397521 Sop. 19, 2013 G0) Forcign Application Priority Data Mar. 14,2012 GP) 2012-087326 GY) ILe C22R 15/00 2B 304 US.C1 crc (2006.01) (2006.01), (2) C228 15/0067 (2013.01); C228 704 (2013.01); €228 18/0069 (2013.01) 2 0089926668: (10) Patent No. 4s) Date of Patent: US 8,992,666 B2 Mar. 31, 2015 usrc 7143 (58) Fleld of Classification Search cee (C228 M04; C22B 1510065 usp 750743 See application ile for complete search history 66) References Cited US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 8.163.063 B2* 42012 Manabe 75783 2ounob1s9 AL* 12010. Manabe 48748 oliioosiess Al 220L1 Manabe POREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS 2 » 2010-24511 2OLLDNSE A 22010 B20 * cited by examiner Primary Examiner — George Wyseomierski Tima M MoCithry Banks 74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Assistant Examiner Birch, LLP on ABSTRACT Provided isa method of leaching copper ore which contains chalcopyrite the method includes a frst eching stoge based ‘om an oxidative leaching reaction of copper by io (II) son, ‘nda second leaching stage, in suceession tothe fist leaching stage usinga solution containing iodide ion and ion (I! ion. 4c ms, 3 Drawing Sheets ~*” EXAMPLE 1, FIRST LEACHING STAGE ~*~ EXAMPLE 1, SECOND LEACHING STAGE = COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 8 6) 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 YIELD OF COPPER LEACHING of 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 NUMBER OF DAYS OF LEACHING (DAYS) U.S. Patent Mar. 31,2015 Sheet 1 of 3 US 8,992,666 B2 Fie. 1 EXAMPLE |, FIRST LEACHING STAGE 100 -* EXAMPLE 1, SECOND LEACHING STAGE @ 90. -= COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 3 80 = & 70 8 § 60 % 50 2 40 8 30 % 20 2 410 Zo 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 NUMBER OF DAYS OF LEACHING (DAYS) FIG. 2 “> EXAMPLE |, FIRST LEACHING STAGE P76 wa» EXAMPLE 1, SECOND LEACHING STAGE g | = 70 & g J 65 z & = & 60 8 $s 3 cd peo scncencenenet > 50 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 NUMBER OF DAYS OF LEACHING (DAYS) U.S. Patent Mar. 31,2015 Sheet 2 of 3 US 8,992,666 B2 FIG. 3 25 20 “= EXAMPLE I “+ COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 15 10 IODINE LOSS (g) 0 20 40 60 80 100 YIELD OF COPPER LEACHING (4) FIG. 4 EXAMPLE 1, SECOND LEACHING STAGE > COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 20 < 2 8 8 g u z 5 a 0 20 40 60 80 100 NUMBER OF DAYS OF LEACHING (DAYS) U.S. Patent Mar. 31,2015 Sheet 3 of 3 US 8,992,666 B2 Fie. 5 3 “= EXAMPLE 1, FIRST LEACHING STAGE 2, “= EXAMPLE 1, SECOND LEACHING STAGE e = COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 E12 5 ao Zz 3 08 = 06 & z Z 04 8 . 5 02 ala G 00 & 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 8 NUMBER OF DAYS OF LEACHING (DAYS) FIG. 6 “+ EXAMPLE 2, FIRST LEACHING STAGE ~~ EXAMPLE 2, SECOND LEACHING STAGE 60 ~s+ COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 2 YIELD OF COPPER LEACHING (%) 0 2 4 6 8 10 61200 «14~—~CtO18 AMOUNT OF LEACHING SOLUTION PER ONE TON OF ORE (m?/t) US 8,992,666 B2 1 METHOD OF LEACHING COPPER ORE (CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION ‘This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority ofthe prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2012- 1057326, filed on Mar. 14, 2012, the entire contents of which are incorporated berein by reference. BACKGROUND 1. Technical Field ‘Tie present invention relates to & method of efficiently leaching copper from eopper ore which contains chaleopy 2. Related Act ‘One known method of recovering copper from copper ore Js relered (0 as L-SX-EW process, Acconding tothe L-SX- EW process, copper ore js leached with sulfuric acid or the like (Leaching), selectively eeovering eopperion from the per-containing leachate by" solvent extraction (SX-Soivent Exinetion), followed by concentration, and ‘elecirolyte cathode copper is produced from the copper sul fate solution by electe-winning (EW). Inthis process, among copper components contained inthe ‘copper ore, copper oxide may realy yield copper by a simple ac leaching. On the other and, among copper com- nents contained inthe copper ore, secondary copper sulfide Such as chaleocite(Cu,S) my be leached by iron (HII) ion, that copper may eficienlly be leached by Ferric leaching using an jon (I) jon-contaning solution or bacterial leach- ‘ng making use of mieroorganisin which ean oxidize ron (I) fom in the sofution ino iron (1) in. The ferric leaching of the secondary copper sulide ore is supposed to proceed accomding tthe chemical rection for ‘mula below (formula 1). Also the bacteria leaching is based ‘on the same reaction mechanism with the Terie leaching, ‘characterizedin continuously supplying an oxidant by con- secutively oxidizing iron (TT fon, produced according to (or nila 1), into ion (11) ion with the aid of iron-oxiizing rmiroorgnism. Among copper components contained inthe eopper oe, primary copper sulfide such as ehaleopysite (CoFeS.) may, however, be leached remarkably slowly by the simple acid Jeaching the ferric leaching and he bacterial leaching. These methods have therefore boon thought tobe not suitable, since ‘takes an extremely long time ata a high yield of copper leaching. [Fit would be granted that recovery of copper from the primary copper sulfide ore isnot conducted, the yield of ‘copper leaching wil stay at Tow level ad the economy is siminished anyway. ‘On the ther hand, chalcopyrite is abundant in the copper ‘ore, so that it has heen desired to eeover copper also from. ‘chalcopyrite in a highly elficent manner. There have here> ore been proposed various techniques for improving the Jeaching rate inthe process of leaching from the chaleopy ‘containing copper ore. Among them, the method of leaching, by adding iodine (or iodide ion) and ion (1) ion is known t© improve the leaching rte fom the chaleopsrite-contining ‘conper ore, by feeding iodineasa etalystin the formof dilute ‘aqueous solution (Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication Nos, 2010402451 1 and 2011-04288) SUMMARY, “The method of leaching by adding fsine (or iodide ion) and iron (ID) ion is known to improve the rate of leaching 0 o 2 ‘om chaleopyie-

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