Background
Gold as a noble metal has unique physical properties, and is not only an important material in the departments of jewelry industry, electronic industry, modern communication, aerospace industry and the like, but also a special currency for storage and investment. However, the average content of gold in the crust is only 1.1 parts per billion, and the pure gold in nature is very little, and is often associated with elements such as sulfur, iron, copper and the like in minerals, so that the extraction method of gold is particularly difficult. At present, the main gold extraction method is the cyanidation method, but because cyanide is a highly toxic substance and the cyanidation method can generate a large amount of cyanide-containing waste and waste liquid to cause environmental pollution, the cyanidation method is strictly controlled or prohibited by some countries. The thiosulfate gold leaching method is a non-cyanide gold extraction technology which is most likely to replace a cyanidation method due to the characteristics of no toxicity, environmental protection and high efficiency, and capability of treating carbonaceous gold ores, sulfur-containing gold ores or copper gold ores which cannot be treated by the cyanidation method.
Solvent extraction is used as a gold separation method, and the method has the advantages of simple process, easy operation and good separation effect; aiming at the separation and extraction of Au (I) in a thiosulfate gold leaching system, a solvent extraction system is usually constructed by amine or quaternary ammonium salt and other substances; although these extraction systems have a certain extraction effect on gold in a thiosulfate gold leaching method, the extraction systems also have the problems of poor stability, large influence of pH, limited types of extractants and the like.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems of gold extraction and separation in a thiosulfate gold leaching system, and provides a method for separating gold from thiosulfate gold leaching solution, wherein the whole extraction process is simple and easy to operate, and has large extraction flux, and the method specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving diphenylphosphine and its derivatives in organic solvent to form organic phase.
(2) Leaching gold ore by a thiosulfate method to extract gold, and taking the leaching liquid as a water phase; the organic and aqueous phases were mixed and Au (I) was extracted into the organic phase.
Preferably, the organic phase in step (1) of the present invention is toluene, and the concentration of diphenylphosphine and its derivatives is 5-8 mmol/L.
Preferably, the extraction temperature in the step (2) is 10-55 ℃, and the extraction time is 10 min.
Preferably, the volume ratio of the organic phase to the aqueous phase in the step (2) of the present invention is 1 (2-10).
The structural formula of the extracting agent diphenylphosphine and the derivatives thereof is as follows:
wherein R is a substituent.
The phosphorus atom of the diphenyl phosphine provides a lone pair of electrons to the gold (I) with an empty orbit, and a coordination bond is formed between the phosphorus atom and the gold (I), so that the chlorodiphenyl phosphine can form a complex with the gold (I) in the solution, and the gold (I) is extracted from the solution.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the invention provides a novel extracting agent diphenylphosphine and a derivative thereof, wherein the extracting agent can well extract Au (I) in a thiosulfate gold leaching system.
(2) The extraction separation method provided by the invention is less influenced by the pH value of the water phase, and has better adsorption effect within the range that the pH value is more than or equal to 6.
(3) The invention has simple and easy operation, high extraction rate and good effect, and can realize the quick extraction and recovery of the cash only needing 10 min.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the following embodiments, but the present invention is not limited thereto
Not limited to the contents.
Example 1
(1) The diphenylphosphine is dissolved in toluene to form an organic phase, and the concentration of the extracting agent is 5 mmol/L.
(2) In this example, a leaching solution of gold ore is used as an aqueous phase, and the leaching solution contains Au (S)2O3)2 3-Concentration of 20.5 mg/L, Cu2+Concentration of 5mmol/L, NH3/NH4+The concentration is 80 mmol/L, S2O3 2-The concentration is 0.1 mol/L; the aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 6.
(3) Mixing 10mL of organic phase and 20mL of aqueous phase, extracting for 10min at 15 ℃, shaking in the extraction process to ensure that the aqueous phase and the organic phase are fully contacted, and calculating the gold extraction rate to be 98 percent after the extraction is finished.
Example 2
(1) The diphenylphosphine is dissolved in toluene to form an organic phase, and the concentration of the extracting agent is 6 mmol/L.
(2) In this example, a leaching solution of gold ore is used as an aqueous phase, and the leaching solution contains Au (S)2O3)2 3-At a concentration of
12.3 mg/L,Cu2+Concentration of 5mmol/L, NH3/NH4+The concentration is 80 mmol/L, S2O3 2-The concentration is 0.1 mol/L; the aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 7.
(3) Mixing 10mL of organic phase and 40mL of water phase, extracting for 10min at 25 ℃, shaking in the extraction process to ensure that the water phase and the organic phase are fully contacted, and calculating the gold extraction rate to be 96% after the extraction is finished.
Example 3
(1) The diphenylphosphine was dissolved in toluene to form an organic phase, and the concentration of the extractant was 7 mmol/L.
(2) In this example, a leaching solution of gold ore is used as an aqueous phase, and the leaching solution contains Au (S)2O3)2 3-Concentration of 20.5 mg/L, Cu2+Concentration of 5mmol/L, NH3/NH4+The concentration is 80 mmol/L, S2O3 2-The concentration is 0.1 mol/L; the aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 8.
(3) Mixing 10mL of organic phase and 20mL of aqueous phase, extracting for 10min at 35 ℃, shaking in the extraction process to ensure that the aqueous phase and the organic phase are fully contacted, and calculating the gold extraction rate to be 98 percent after the extraction is finished.
Example 4
(1) The diphenylphosphine is dissolved in toluene to form an organic phase, and the concentration of the extracting agent is 8 mmol/L.
(2) In this example, a leaching solution of gold ore is used as an aqueous phase, and the leaching solution contains Au (S)2O3)2 3-The concentration is 50.6 mg/L, Cu2+Concentration of 5mmol/L, NH3/NH4+The concentration is 80 mmol/L, S2O3 2-Concentration ofIs 0.1 mol/L; the aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 9.
(3) Mixing 10mL of organic phase and 20mL of aqueous phase, extracting for 10min at 45 ℃, shaking in the extraction process to ensure that the aqueous phase and the organic phase are fully contacted, and calculating the gold extraction rate to be 86 percent after the extraction is finished.
Example 5
(1) The diphenylphosphine is dissolved in toluene to form an organic phase, and the concentration of the extracting agent is 8 mmol/L.
(2) Configuration of 80mg/L Au (S)2O3)2 3-The simulated solution was an aqueous phase, which was adjusted to pH 11.
(3) Mixing 10mL of organic phase and 30mL of aqueous phase, extracting for 10min at 25 ℃, shaking in the extraction process to ensure that the aqueous phase and the organic phase are fully contacted, and calculating the gold extraction rate to be 99 percent after the extraction is finished.
Example 6
(1) The chlorodiphenylphosphine is dissolved in toluene to form an organic phase, and the concentration of the extracting agent is 8 mmol/L.
(2) In this example, a leaching solution of gold ore is used as an aqueous phase, and the leaching solution contains Au (S)2O3)2 3-The concentration is 50.6 mg/L, Cu2+The concentration is 5mmol/L, NH3/NH4 +The concentration is 80 mmol/L, S2O3 2-The concentration is 0.1 mol/L; the aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 9.
(3) Mixing 10mL of organic phase and 20mL of aqueous phase, extracting for 10min at 45 ℃, shaking in the extraction process to ensure that the aqueous phase and the organic phase are fully contacted, and calculating the gold extraction rate to be 81 percent after the extraction is finished.
While the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the specific embodiments thereof, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention within the knowledge of those skilled in the art.