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Record W2053219917 · doi:10.1179/cmq.2006.45.2.135

KINETICS OF TRITHIONATE DEGRADATION

2006· article· en· W2053219917 on OpenAlexfundno aff
N. AHERN, David Dreisinger, Gus Van Weert

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Metallurgical Quarterly · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMetal Extraction and Bioleaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAngloGold AshantiBarrick Gold Corporation
KeywordsMaterials science

Abstract

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Thiosulfate has shown promise as an alternative to cyanide for gold leaching. However, one of the limitations is high thiosulfate consumption. Thiosulfate degradation is not completely understood. Of the degradation products, trithionate is a concern in the resin recovery of gold and is persistent in solution. Very little is known about the expected behaviour of trithionate both with respect to its formation and to its interaction with other solution species.The focus of this work was to further the understanding of the behaviour of trithionate in gold leach solutions. <disp-formula id="e1"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mn>6</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mn>4</mml:mn><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:msup><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mn>6</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math></disp-formula>The degradation kinetics was determined in systems resembling gold leaching solutions and a kinetic model was derived as expressed in Equation 1 for aqueous ammoniacal solutions. (1) The presence of lower concentrations of thiosulfate catalyzed the reaction, while excess thiosulfate inhibited it. Cupric copper was not found to have any effect under the conditions tested.L’hyposulfite s’est montré prometteur comme substitut du cyanure pour la lixiviation de l’or. Cependant, l’une des limitations est la consommation élevée d’hyposulfite. La dégradation de l’hyposulfite n’est pas entièrement comprise. Parmi les produits de la dégradation, le trithionate est une préoccupation dans la récupération à la résine de l’or et est persistant en solution. On connaît très peu du comportement attendu du trithionate tant en ce qui a trait à sa formation qu’à son interaction avec d’autres espèces en solution.L’objet de ce travail consistait à mieux comprendre le comportement du trithionate dans les solutions de lixiviation de l’or. On a determiné la cinétique de la dégradation dans des systèmes qui ressemblaient aux solutions de lixiviation de l’or et l’on a dérivé un modèle cinétique tel qu’exprimé à l’Équation 1 pour les solutions aqueuses ammoniacales. <disp-formula id="e2"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mfrac><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mn>6</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>d</mml:mi><mml:mi>t</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:mfrac><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:mo>(</mml:mo><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mn>4</mml:mn><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:msup><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:msub><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mo>[</mml:mo> <mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>O</mml:mi><mml:mn>6</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mn>2</mml:mn><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msubsup></mml:mrow> <mml:mo>]</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow><mml:mo>)</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:mrow></mml:math></disp-formula>Les plus faibles concentrations d’hyposulfite agissaient comme catalyseur de la réaction alors que l’excès d’hyposulfite l’inhibait. On a trouvé que le cuivre cuivrique n’avait aucun effet sous les conditions évaluées.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.834
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.179
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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