Dear all
I have a big problem to recover Pd and silver when deal with some special chips.
This kind of chip (you can see in picture 1) has 140g/t gold ,480g/t silver, 50g/t palldium and about 40% of copper.
My step to treat this kind of chip is as bleow
1. burning in the furnace (you can see the product after burning in picture 2)
2. Dissolving it in sulphric acid (150g/L) and adding H2O2 continuously (total 5L H2O2 /100L solution), keep the temperture between 50 to 60 ℃, at the end of the reaction. The copper content in the solution could reach 20 g/L.
And problem comes here, there is about 2ppm silver and 1ppm pd in the solution.
so there is 20kg copper ,2g silver, 1g palldium in 1m³ solution. which means about 10% of Ag and 40% of Pd will lost.
3. Putting the copper sulphate solution to electrowinning, and get cathode copper,and I found most of silver and palladium depositing in the cathode copper. In other words ,they gone with copper.
I analyse the cathode copper, about 100g/t Ag and 50 g/t Pd in the cathode copper.
4. We hope to recover Au ,Ag ,pd from the resuide after remoe the copper ,but most of pd and some Ag losted because of step 2.
Sp anyone have a better idea
I have a big problem to recover Pd and silver when deal with some special chips.
This kind of chip (you can see in picture 1) has 140g/t gold ,480g/t silver, 50g/t palldium and about 40% of copper.
My step to treat this kind of chip is as bleow
1. burning in the furnace (you can see the product after burning in picture 2)
2. Dissolving it in sulphric acid (150g/L) and adding H2O2 continuously (total 5L H2O2 /100L solution), keep the temperture between 50 to 60 ℃, at the end of the reaction. The copper content in the solution could reach 20 g/L.
And problem comes here, there is about 2ppm silver and 1ppm pd in the solution.
so there is 20kg copper ,2g silver, 1g palldium in 1m³ solution. which means about 10% of Ag and 40% of Pd will lost.
3. Putting the copper sulphate solution to electrowinning, and get cathode copper,and I found most of silver and palladium depositing in the cathode copper. In other words ,they gone with copper.
I analyse the cathode copper, about 100g/t Ag and 50 g/t Pd in the cathode copper.
4. We hope to recover Au ,Ag ,pd from the resuide after remoe the copper ,but most of pd and some Ag losted because of step 2.
Sp anyone have a better idea