WO2006029443A1 - Production of ferro-nickel or nickel matte by a combined hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical process - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a new method for producing ferro-nickel or nickel matte from lateritic ore by a combination of hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes.
- the present invention provides a new process which involves heap leaching of the ore, followed by nickel and cobalt recovery and impurity removal by an ion exchange process, mixed nickel and iron hydroxide production by neutralisation, followed by smelting and reduction of the mixed nickel and iron hydroxide product to produce ferro-nickel or nickel matte.
- Cobalt may also be recovered following a further ion exchange process by precipitation as cobalt hydroxide or cobalt sulfide.
- Laterite nickel and cobalt ore deposits generally contain oxidic type ores, [imonites, and silicate type ores, saprolites, as two layers in the same deposits, separated by a transition zone.
- oxidic type ores [imonites, and silicate type ores, saprolites, as two layers in the same deposits, separated by a transition zone.
- high grade limonite and sapralite are preferred. This leads to many ore bodies and transition ores in some deposits being rejected for current process routes.
- the higher nickel content saprolites tend to be treated by a pyrometallurgical process involving roasting and electrical smelting techniques to produce ferro-nickel.
- the power requirements and high iron to nickel ore ratio for the lower nickel content limonite, saprollte, and Hmonite/saprolite blends in the transition zone make this processing route too expensive.
- the high nickel and cobalt content limonite is normally commercially treated hydrometallurgically by the High Pressure Acid Leach (HPAL) process, or by a combination of pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes, such as the Caron reduction roast - ammonium carbonate leach process.
- HPAL High Pressure Acid Leach
- the conventional treatment of saprolite to produce ferro-nickel involves a drying step, followed by a reduction roast step to partially convert the nickel oxides to nickel, and smelting in an electrical furnace.
- This is a highly energy intensive process and requires a high grade saprolite source to make it economic. It also has the disadvantage that financial value of any cobalt in the ore, which is recovered into the ferro-nickel, is not realised.
- An improvement to this process would be to provide a nickel iron concentrate to the smelting step which would lead to a large reduction in the power consumption, which is one of the major costs of the process.
- Heap leaching is a conventional method of economically extracting metals from ores and has been successfully used to recover materials such as copper, gold, uranium and silver. Generally it involves piling raw ore directly from ore deposits into heaps that vary in height The leaching solution is introduced onto the top of the heap to percolate down through the heap. The effluent liquor is drained from the base of the heap and passes to a processing plant where the metal values are recovered.
- a major problem with the heap leach process is that the leachate produced contains, in addition to the nickel and cobalt values targeted, large quantities of iron and a variety of other impurities.
- the purification of similar nickel solutions from commercial laterite acid leach processes involve neutralisation of the acid content, precipitation of iron, followed by production of a nickel cobalt intermediate, a re-dissolution step, and complex solvent extraction stages to produce saleable nickel and cobalt.
- the purification steps generally aim for complete removal of iron and the other impurities.
- Ion Exchange (IX) processes have been disclosed for the extraction of both the nickel and cobalt from the nickel leachate, leaving the major impurities in the raffinate.
- Patent 95/16118 (BHP Minerals International Inc.) describes an ion exchange process for separating nickel from the leachate from treatment of laterite by the pressure acid leach process.
- Nickel Is extracted by the resin at pH less than 2, and stripped with sulfuric acid for subsequent electrowinning.
- Cobalt remains in the raffinate along w ' rth other impurities, and after solution neutralisation is precipitated as a sulfide.
- Patent WO 00/053820 (BHP Minerals International Inc.) describes the ion exchange extraction of nickel and cobalt from acid sulfate leach solution onto the resin, and the subsequent acid stripping of the metals from the resin, and their separation by solvent extraction.
- US Patent 6350420 B1 (BHP Minerals International Inc.) also teaches the use of ion exchange resin in a resin in pulp process to extract nickel and cobalt onto the resin from an acid leach slurry.
- the present invention aims to provide a new process which overcomes or at least alleviates one or more of the difficulties associated with the prior art.
- the present invention provides a process for producing ferro- nickel or nickel matte, and cobalt-containing hydroxide or sulfide from laterite ore. It is applicable to the entire profile of laterite ore bodies.
- the invention is particularly applicable to a process where the laterite ore has been subjected to a heap leach process, wherein the nickel and cobalt is leached with sulfuric acid to form a product liquor solution containing nickel, cobalt, iron and acid soluble impurities,
- the invention resides in a process for the production of ferro-nickel or nickel matte from a product liquor solution containing at least nickel, cobalt, iron and acid soluble impurities, said process including the steps of: a) contacting the product liquor solution containing the nickel, cobalt, iron and acid soluble impurities with an ion exchange resin, wherein the resin selectively absorbs nickel and iron from the solution leaving the cobalt and the acid soluble impurities in the raffinate; b) stripping the nickel and iron from the resin with a sulfuric acid solution to produce an eluate containing nickel and iron; c) neutralising the eluate to precipitate a mixed nickel iron hydroxide product; and d) reducing and smelting the mixed nickel iron hydroxide product to produce ferro-nickel or nickel matte.
- the process forms part of an overall process for the recovery of nickel and cobalt.
- the product liquor solution is produced by a heap leach process wherein at least one heap of ore is established and leached with a sulfuric acid supplemented liquor stream, which will percolate through the heap to produce a product liquor solution containing at least nickel, cobalt, iron and acid soluble impurities.
- the heap leach process is established in a counter current system whereby: a) a primary and a secondary heap are established; b) the secondary heap is treated with a fiquor stream comprising recycled raffinate from the ion exchange process supplemented by sulfuric acid, to produce an intermediate product liquor solution; and c) treating the primary heap with the intermediate product liquor solution to produce the product liquor solution containing at least nickel, cobalt, iron and acid soluble impurities.
- the ion exchange process may also be applied to a product liquor solution containing at least nickel, cobalt and iron produced from lateritic ore by leaching with sulfuric acid by other means, such as leachate, partially neutralised to pH of from about 1.0 to 2.5, from a pressure acid leach process, an atmospheric leach process, or any combination of pressure and atmospheric leaching, or from an oxidative leach process of nickel sulfide ores followed by partial neutralisation.
- the product liquor solution from such processes may report directly to the ion exchange step or be combined with the liquor stream in the heap leach process.
- the ion exchange resin used in the process selectively absorbs nickel and ferric iron ions in preference to cobalt and any acid soluble impurities such as ferrous iron, manganese, magnesium and aluminium that may be present.
- the preferred ion exchange resin is a resin having a bis-picolylamine functional group such as Dowex M4194.
- the cobalt may also be recovered by separate ion exchange processing wherein the raffinate, which by now is substantially free of nickel and ferric iron ions, is contacted with an ion exchange resin.
- the preferred ion exchange resin is again a resin having a bis-picofylamine functional group such as Dowex M4194.
- the raffinate prior to contact with the ion exchange resin, is partially neutralised with, for example calcium carbonate, to precipitate any remaining ferric iron as goethite, haematite or hydroxides.
- the partially neutralised raffinate containing the cobalt and acid soluble impurities is then contacted with the ion exchange resin at a pH of from about 2.0 to 3.0 to . selectively absorb the cobalt and leave a cobalt depleted raffinate.
- the cobalt is then eluted from the resin with sulfuric acid and recovered from the eluate by neutralising the eluate to precipitate the cobalt as a cobalt hydroxide or cobalt sulfide product.
- Fig. 1 illustrates a flow sheet of the invention illustrating each aspect of the invention including the counter current heap leach process, the hydrometallurgical nickel and iron ion exchange process leading to production of a ferro-nickel product by pyrometallurgical means, and the recovery of cobalt by ion-exchange and precipitation techniques.
- Fig. 2 illustrates the same process as Fig. 1 except for the addition of gypsum in the smelting process to produce nickel matte.
- Fig. 3 illustrates the same process as Fig. 1 except for the addition of sulfur dioxide added prior to and during the leach step to convert ferric iron to ferrous iron and improve cobalt recovery.
- Fig. 4 illustrates the same process as Fig. 1 except for the introduction of a low pressure leach step applied to the nickel ion exchange rafftnate.
- Fig. 5 illustrates the same process as Fig. 4 except that the low pressure leach step is applied to only part of the nickel ion exchange raffinate.
- Fig. 6 illustrates the same process as Fig. 4 except that it also includes the addition of sulfur dioxide to convert ferric iron to ferrous iron in the leach step.
- Fig. 7 illustrates the same process as Fig, 5 except that it also includes the addition of sulfur dioxide to convert ferric iron to ferrous iron in the leach step.
- Fig. 8 illustrates the concentration profiles of iron and nickel with and without Fe 3 VFe 2+ conversion.
- Fig. 9 illustrates a ferro-nickel nugget produced in accordance with the process of the invention.
- later ⁇ te ore is crushed to a size, preferably less - than 25mm $ ⁇ ze and agglomerated using water, sulfuric acid, or other binding materials, to improve heap permeability
- the agglomerated ore may be arranged into a single heap but preferably at least two heaps, a primary and a secondary heap, to be operated as a counter current heap leach system.
- the counter current heap leach process has the advantage of lower acid consumption, and a cleaner product solution than the single heap system.
- the product liquor solution (7) is treated by an ion exchange step (8), where the majority of the nickel and some of the iron is retained on the resin bed, and the major portion of the iron, other impurities, and the cobalt remain in the raffinate solution (9) and pass through.
- the resin for example, preferably is a resin with a bis-picolylamine functional group.
- the resin can recover nickel and ferric iron at a pH of from about 1.0 to 2.5 and cobalt and acid soluble impurities remain in the raffinate.
- the retained nickel and iron are eluted from the resin using sulfuric acid solution (10) to produce an eluate containing nickel and iron (11 ). Some of this eluate and some water may be recycled and added to the sulfuric acid as part of the eluting process.
- the ion exchange eluate containing the nickel and iron (11) is neutralised, preferably with Magnesium oxide (12), to precipitate a mixed nickel iron hydroxide product (MHP) (13), which is subjected to solid/liquid separation (US), filtered and dried.
- MHP mixed nickel iron hydroxide product
- the mixed nickel iron hydroxide product may then be reduced, and fed to an electric arc furnace for smelting to produce a ferro-nickel product (29).
- the raffinate from the nickel ion exchange step may be partially neutralised, preferably using calcium carbonate (14), which precipitates the majority of the iron as goethite (15) for disposal. Precipitation of iron as goethite prevents accumulation or saturation of iron in the system, which will assist in cobalt recovery by ion exchange.
- the iron may also be precipitated as haematite or hydroxide.
- the partially neutralised raffinate which has now been mostly depleted of both nickel and ferric iron, may then, be treated in a cobalt ion exchange step (16), to extract the cobalt onto the resin leaving a cobalt depleted raffinate.
- the resin may again be a resin with a bis- picolylamine functional group, such as Dowex M4195. If desired, all or part of the cobalt ion exchange raffinate is acidified, preferably with sulfuric acid and recycled (17) as depleted product liquor solution to the secondary heap leach stage.
- the cobalt may be eluted from the cobalt ion exchange resin with sulfuric acid (18). A small portion of the cobalt containing eluate, together with a small amount of water may be recycled through the resin bed with the sulfuric acid as part of the eluting process.
- the cobalt can be recovered from the eluate either as a cobalt/nickel hydroxide precipitate (CHP) (19) by neutralisation with, for example, magnesium oxide (20), or as a cobalt/nickel sulfide (21 ) precipitate by precipitation wrth, for example, a sodium sulfide solution (22) or sodium bi ⁇ sulfide.
- CHP cobalt/nickel hydroxide precipitate
- 21 cobalt/nickel sulfide
- this liquor stream may also be supplemented by leachate containing at least nickel, cobalt and iron from a pressure acid leach process, an atmospheric leach process, or any combination of pressure and atmospheric leaching of laterite ores, or from an oxidative leach process of nickel sulfide ores.
- the product liquor solution for the ion exchange process can be sourced directly from the leachate of such leach processes, without a heap leach process.
- Figure 2 illustrates a process where gypsum (calcium sulfate) (23) or an alternative sulfur source, may be added to the mixed nickel iron hydroxide product, and the mixture smelted to produce nickel matte (24) (a nickel iron sulfide) which can be further processed to refined nickel.
- gypsum calcium sulfate
- nickel matte a nickel iron sulfide
- the conversion of ferric iron in the solutions to ferrous iron also enhances the selectivity of the resin to nickel because most conventional resins have less selectivity to ferrous than ferric ions.
- the conversion of ferric ions to ferrous ions releases acid, which assists in the leaching of the ore.
- the sulfur dioxide may be in the form of gaseous sulfur dioxide, sodium metabisulfite, or any other form.
- the nickel depleted raffinate (9) from the ion exchange step may be subjected to a low pressure leach step (LPAL) (26) at approximately 160"- 200° C, preferably about 180° C, in an autoclave.
- LPAL low pressure leach step
- the discharge stream (29) from the LPAL step contains high acidity due to acid release caused by iron precipitation as haematite (27).
- the haematite is discarded following solid/liquid separation. Part of this acidic discharge stream
- the discharge stream (30) may be recycled several times to build up the level of cobalt to a sufficient level to recover by an ion exchange process. Once there are sufficient cobalt levels, part of the discharge stream (31) is bled off for cobalt recovery.
- the pH of the discharge stream (31) should be about 2-3. Therefore it is neutralised, preferably with calcium carbonate (32) to adjust the pH before the cobalt ion exchange step (16).
- a further reason for the LPAL step is to discharge a part of the iron as haematite in order to keep the level of iron in balance. That is, to prevent accumulation or saturation of iron in the system. This will assist in the recovery of cobalt by ion exchange.
- FIG. 5 A further embodiment of the above use of the low pressure leach step applicable to the production of both ferro-nickel (illustrated) and nickel matte, is illustrated in Figure 5, where the low pressure leach step (26) is applied to only the part of the ion exchange nickel depleted raffinate (9). Treating only part of the nickel depleted raffinate requires only a smaller autoclave for the smaller stream. The part of the nickel depleted raffinate that has been subjected to the LPAL step will be treated for cobalt recovery in an ion exchange step while the remainder is recycled to the liquid stream (1) for the heap leach process.
- the discharge stream (29) from the LPAL process is also neutralised with calcium carbonate (30) to adjust the pH to around 2-3 so as to achieve an operational pH of from 2-3 for recovery of cobalt in the cobalt ion exchange process (16).
- This neutralisation step may be applied to the whole slurry containing the haematite prior to solid/liquid separation of the haematite (27) as part of the discharge from the LPAL step is not recycled to liquid stream (1 ) as it is in Figure 4.
- a further two embodiments of the invention which are illustrated as applicable to the production of ferro-nickel but are also applicable in the production of nickel matte, involve the addition of sulfur dioxide (28) to the intermediate product liquor solution (5) for the embodiments which include the low pressure leach step treating all of the raffinate (9) from the nickel ion exchange step (figure 6) and part of the raffinate (9) (figure 7).
- sulfur dioxide 228
- FIG. 6 A further two embodiments of the invention (figures 6 and 7), which are illustrated as applicable to the production of ferro-nickel but are also applicable in the production of nickel matte, involve the addition of sulfur dioxide (28) to the intermediate product liquor solution (5) for the embodiments which include the low pressure leach step treating all of the raffinate (9) from the nickel ion exchange step (figure 6) and part of the raffinate (9) (figure 7).
- Each of the embodiments described in the figures illustrates various alternatives in the process and various combinations of the alternatives should be considered as forming part of the invention described herein
- An advantage of the process described is that it is suitable for lateritic ores that are not currently economic for processing by the conventional pyrometallurgical or hydrometallurgical routes, described earlier. It has a major advantage over the conventional saprolite smelting process to produce ferro- ⁇ ickei in that the quantity of nickel iron hydroxide product material to be smelted is approximately one fiftieth of the equivalent quantity of saprolite ore that would be required, with major associated power savings.
- a second advantage of the new process over the conventional ferro- nickel smelting process is that the valuable metal cobalt is recovered separately for sale, whereas in saprolite smelting the cobalt becomes part of the ferro- nickel and its value is lost to the producer.
- a further advantage of the process described is that, as a consequence of the high selectivity of the nickel Ion exchange process step for nickel and iron, the impurity levels in the ferro-nickel produced are significantly lower than those currently achieved by the majority of commercial producers, and even those in the "super pure" ferro-nickel grade. The process is also particularly attractive where large deposits of saprolite and/or limonite exist at an established saprolfte mining and smelting operation producing ferro-nickel from the high grade ore.
- This process would allow treatment of the currently uneconomic grade ores which would normally be rejected to produce a mixed nickel iron hydroxide product feed for the existing smelter, reducing the unit power consumption per ton of nickel produced, producing cobalt for sale, and significantly improving the overall economics of the mining and processing the whole ore body.
- the new process has a further advantage over the current hydrometallurgical routes, in that it has fewer process steps to convert ore to a finished metal product, ferro-nickel, and the preferred method of heap leaching is generally less capital intensive than other leach processes. Also, as a part of the iron content of the original ore becomes an ingredient of the final ferro-nickel product, the capacity of the plant required for iron removal is smaller than the iron removal sections of current hydrometallurgical routes.
- the mixed nickel iron hydroxide product suitable for feeding to a ferro-nickel smelter can be produced by the first parts of this process in plant located at the laterite ore body, and shipped cost effectively because of Its high nickel content to a remote existing ferro-nickel smelter if the economics favour this.
- a similar strategy could be used if a nickel matte is required as the final product.
- Example 1 Single column leaching with sulfuric acid only
- Example 2 Single column leaching fed with a limonite acid leachate.
- nickel and cobalt containing solution e.g. pressure leaching or atmospheric leaching product liquor solution
- 80.4 kg saprolite ore with moisture of 24.0% was agglomerated with 98% sulfuric acid to make the pellets with particle size of 3.35 mm to 25.4 mm.
- the acid dose for agglomeration was 25 kg per tonne of dry ore.
- the column size was 15cm diameter x 386cm height
- the acidic leachate from a limonite pressure leach containing nickel, cobalt and iron in solution was fed to the column with a flux of 10 Litre/(hr.m 2 ).
- the composition of this feed solution is shown in Table 2.
- the nickel extraction was 76% at 197 days. Table 3 summarizes the results.
- a group of counter-current column leaches were carried out with a constant acid consumption of 670 kg H 2 SCVt ore.
- the group contains five columns named as A, B, C, D and E.
- Column A was firstly fed with acidic intermediate product liquor solution (IPLS) obtained from previous column leaching (simulating the secondary leach effluent liquor) to simulate primary leaching, then fed with blank sulfuric solution of 100 g/l H 2 SCVtO simulate secondary leaching, and finally rinsed with pH 2 dilute H 2 SO 4 solution.
- IPLS acidic intermediate product liquor solution
- PLS product liquor solution
- Nickel and some iron are loaded onto the resin, separating them from other impurities and the remaining iron which pass through in the raffinate.
- the nickel and iron-containing eluate was obtained with stripping the ion exchange column with 150 g/L H 2 SO4, Table 7 illustrates the composition of feed, raffinate and Nj-eluate. The ratio of nickel to iron achieved in the eluate is suitable to achieve a good feed material forferro-nickel production.
- the column leaching product liquor solution was treated with sparged sulfur dioxide gas or adding sodium metabisulfite to convert all ferric ions to ferrous ions, as Dowex M4195 resin had less selectivity to ferrous ions than ferric ions.
- the iron content in the nickel el ⁇ ate was decreased by 80%.
- Fig, 8 shows the concentration profiles of iron and nickel with and without Fe +3 /Fe +2 conversion.
- LW is the load wash with water stage
- SW is the stripping wash with water stage The number after each character describes the number of bed volumes of liquor that had passed through the bed at the time the sample was taken.
- the ion exchange Ni-eluate was neutralized w ' rth MgO at pH9-14 to precipitate iron and nickel as a mixed nickel iron hydroxide product (MHP).
- MHP mixed nickel iron hydroxide product
- the dried nickel iron hydroxide product was mixed with carbon and slag-making materials and smelted in furnace at around 1575° C to make ferro-nickel.
- Table 9 summarises the composition of Ni-eluate, barren solution after neutralization, nickel iron hydroxide product and ferro-nickel.
- Fig. 9 shows the ferro-nickel nugget produced. This example demonstrates that ferro-nickel can be produced from the process described in the invention.
- Table 9 Composition of ion exchange Ni-el ⁇ te, Barren Solution, nickel iron
- the excess iron removal step in preparation for cobalt recovery is illustrated in this example. Due to high Fe/Ni and Fe/Co concentration ratio, the raffinate from the nickel ion exchange step is pre-treated with goethite precipitation before feeding to a cobalt ion exchange step. The raffinate was heated to 80° to 90° C and neutralized with limestone at pH2. The solution and solid assay indicated there was no Ni and Co loss during this treatment. Table 10 illustrates the liquid and solid compositions.
- a solution obtained from goethite precipitation at pH2 as described in example 8 was processed through a 250 mL resin column of Dowex M4195 resin at a flow rate of 25 mL/min. Both cobalt and residual nickel were loaded onto the resin, the other impurities were expelled to the raffinate.
- the cobalt/nickel containing eluate was obtained with stripping the ion exchange column with 150 g/L H 2 SO 4 .
- Table 11 illustrates the composition of feed, raffinate and Co/Ni-eluate.
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