SUBJECT: Secondary Sources of precious metals

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SUBJECT CODE: MM2306
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Guided By : Prof. Archana Mallik Submitted by:

1. Pratyush Sadangi (Group Leader)

2. Shrestha Mohapatra
3. Debapriya Mohanta
4. Ramakant Biswakarma
5. Sumit Kumar
6. Pathlavath Sunil
 Secondary sources include all metals that have entered the
market but no longer serve a purpose in the economy.
 Liquid and solid waste streams containing significant metal
concentrations.
 The first stage in the recycling of metal is its separation from

Introduction
other materials.

Fig.2.1 - Precious Metals found in Electronic Scrap

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Silver-Platinum-Palladium---From-Electronic-Scrap-Manufacturing-Waste-
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 GOLD SILVER
 Some of the major secondary sources of gold are:-
 Some of the major secondary sources of silver
 Scrap Jewellery
are:-
Fact- Indian housewives hold 11% of the
 waste from electrical and electronic
world’s gold.
equipments (WEEE), scrap metals, spent
 Mobile phone scraps
catalysts, jewellery.
 Cu anode slime
 silver cell batteries
 E-Waste

Gold & Silver

 spent plating solutions and photographic
 Gold recovery - hydrometallurgical and bio-
waste
hydrometallurgical processes and can be extracted
via bio-sorption.
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Fig.3.3 - Contribution towards Primary &

Fig.3.1 - Scrap Jewellery
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Fig.3.2 - Silver Cell Batteries
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Sec. Silver Sources
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 Some of the major secondary sources of Pt, Pd & Rh are:-
 Catalytic converters
 Electrical contacts and electrodes
 Platinum resistance thermometers
 Jewellery
 Platinum based anodes used in ships, pipelines and steel
piers
 Rhodium and Palladium are fission products of U-235.

Pt, Pd & Rh
 Nuclear fuel is a potential source but the extraction is complex
and expensive.
Fig.4.3 – Typical Nuclear Power Plant
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Fig.4.1 – Catalyst Converters Fig.4.2 – Platinum Spark Plug Fig.4.4 – Platinum Resistance Thermometer
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 High demand and value of these metals and
scarcity of these metals.
 Increasing pressure on our resources.
 Growing need for recovery of Platinum Group
Metals(PGM), Ag & Au from various waste
streams.

Remarks
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Fig.5.2 – Precious Metals in E-Waste
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recycling/metal-recovery-systems/e-waste-precious-metal-
refining-recycling-system.html 10/08/2019

 For instance, Encycle/Texas uses hydrometallurgical

Fig.4.2 – Percentage contribution towards sec. sources of Pt technology to separate copper & silver.
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 Recovery of gold from spent sources by pyrometallurgy &
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Slide 2: Fig. 2.1- https://www.edie.net/14044/products/Precious-Metal-Recovery---Gold-Silver-Platinum-Palladium---
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Fig. 2.2- https://metalrecyclingmachines.com/metal-recycling/metal-recovery-systems/e-waste-precious-metal-
refiningrecycling-system.html 09/08/2019

Slide 3: Fig. 3.1- https://www.google.com/search?q=scrap+jewellery&rlz=1C1NDCMenIN777IN777&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa

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References
Fig. 3.2- https://sep.yimg.com/ca/I/theshorelinemarket_2589_290850973 09/08/2019
Fig. 3.3- https://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/education/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/primary-and-
secondary-ilver-sources.gif 10/08/2019
Slide 4: Fig. 4.1- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=AOvVaw18tp01avR4HkurGcLnzdcD&ust= 6
1567038166160091 10/08/2019
Fig. 4.2- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=https%3A%2F%AOvVaw3NUTzjappS1ncGjo
scXl3W&ust=1567039607751902 10/08/2019
Fig. 4.3- http://gabriella-aw1503.changeip.com/typical-us-nuclear-power-plant-diagram.html 10/08/2019
Fig. 4.4- https://www.eiscolabs.com/products/ph0425 10/08/2019
Slide 5: Fig. 5.1- https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F&tbnid=fuBHrZkTzaBsM&vet=1&docid=EsYHznO9Hu
TzM&w=634&h=423&q=platinum%20uses%20pictures&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim 10/08/2019
Fig. 5.2- https://metalrecyclingmachines.com/metal-recycling/metal-recovery-systems/e-waste-precious-metal-refining-
recycling-system.html 10/08/2019
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