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For the bottom saprolitic nickel laterite ore, it is difficult to concentrate nickel and iron through physical beneficiation due to its low nickel and iron content and the highly distributed ...
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High-Grade Ferronickel Concentrates Prepared from Laterite …
This work presents a practical method for the highly efficient recovery and utilization of iron and nickel from low-grade laterite nickel ore, contributing to the development of …
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Alkaline Hydrothermal Treatment and Leaching Kinetics of
Laterite nickel ore [] is formed by large-scale weathering and deposition of nickel bearing peridotite in tropical or subtropical areas.It is an unconsolidated, hydrous, and clay-like oxide ore, which contains elements such as iron, aluminum, and silicon. Laterite nickel deposits are mainly distributed in tropical countries within 30 degrees …
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Carbothermic Reduction of Nickeliferous Laterite Ores for Nickel …
In 2011, the nickel production in China amounted to 446 kilotons, with the proportion of electrolytic nickel and nickel pig iron (NPI) registering 41.5% and 56.5%, respectively.
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Hydrometallurgical process and recovery of valuable …
Nickel laterite is mainly distributed in countries near the equator (such as Indonesia), while nickel sulfide is mainly distributed in countries at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere (such as China). ... (NPI) are used to produce stainless steel. Limonitic laterite with high iron and low magnesium is suitable for nickel extraction by ...
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Ferronickel Production from Nickel Laterite via Sulfide …
Distribution of iron (a), silicon (b), aluminum (c), manganese (d), magnesium (e), and nickel (f) in the laterite feedstock.Nickel is observed to be primarily distributed between iron-rich phases at a grade of around 1 wt% and magnesium-silicon-rich phases at a grade of around 3 wt%.
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Nickel Laterite Beneficiation and Potential for
The proportion of nickel and iron in ferronickel concentrate was 88.7% (metal Ni-8.62%, metal Fe-80.1%), and the recovery efficiency of nickel and iron are 98.8% and 82.4%, respectively.
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Carbothermic Reduction of Nickeliferous Laterite …
Carbothermic Reduction of Nickeliferous Laterite Ores for Nickel Pig Iron Production in China: A Review MINGJUN RAO,1 GUANGHUI LI,1,2 TAO JIANG,1 JUN LUO,1 YUANBO ZHANG,1 and XIAOHUI FAN1 1 ...
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Nickel production from low-iron laterite ores: Process descriptions
A typical pyrometallurgical process for nickel recovery involves pre-calcination of laterite ore in rotary kiln to remove moisture and chemically-bonded water, and subsequent pre-reduction in kiln ...
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(PDF) The Nickel Production Methods from Laterites and the …
Primary world nickel production in 2020 was 2430.7 kt Ni; 69% (1677.7 kt) of them came from oxidized nickel ores (laterites) and 31% from sulfides. Production-wise, 87.7% of …
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Iron Recovery from Residue of Lateritic Nickel Leaching …
This study purpos es of recovering HPAL residue as iron raw. materials. This study purpose ma y support the decrease of iron ore import from other. countries due to the low quality of local iron ...
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Efficient enrichment of nickel and iron in laterite nickel ore …
Abstract. The process of deep reduction and magnetic separation was proposed to enrich nickel and iron from laterite nickel ores. Results show that nickel–iron concentrates …
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Sulfur Removal and Iron Recovery from High-Pressure Acid …
Laterite nickel is an important nickel resource, accounting for 60% of the total nickel-based reserves. With the depletion of nickel sulfide resources, the exploration of nickel laterite ores has become increasingly important [].]. Low-grade nickel laterite ore accounts for more than half of the total nickel laterite ore, which is mainly smelted by …
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Mineralogical Characteristics of the Nickel Laterite, …
The results show that the nickel laterite deposited in Southeast Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, belongs to the typical high-nickel and low-iron garnierite-type laterite. The concentrations of nickel and iron of the nickel laterite are 1.99 wt% and 17.55 wt%, respectively. The serpentine, olivine, clay, chlorite, hematite, and magnetite are the ...
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Impacts of Laterite Mining of Nickel and Iron Ores on …
p. 2 Impacts of Laterite Mining of Nickel and Iron Ores on Watersheds PREMISE Open pit, contour or strip mining of laterites involves removing 1 to 2 meters of topsoil to be able to extract the laterite, limonite and saprolite deposits which occupy the soil strata from 3 to 25 meters below the ground.
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Upgrade of nickel and iron from low-grade nickel laterite …
2.1 Materials 2.1.1 Nickel laterite ore. The chemical composition of nickel laterite as received from Philippines employed in the study is shown in Table 1.It indicates that the nickel laterite contains 1.29 wt.% Ni, 16.31 wt.% Fe, 32.28 wt.% SiO 2 and 27.38 wt.% MgO with both high Fe/Ni of 12.64 and MgO/SiO 2 of 0.85, while the impurity …
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Nickel Laterites: The World's Largest Source of Nickel
Laterites are a type of soil, rich in aluminum, magnesium, iron or in this case nickel that formed through prolonged chemical and mechanical weathering in wet, warm, tropical …
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Waste to treasure: A sustainable technic to prepare high …
Laterite nickel ore is a valuable resource of nickel and iron, formed through extended and deep weathering of ultra-ferric rocks containing nickel silicates, typically found in tropical or subtropical regions. About 70 % of the Earth's nickel resources are located in laterite nickel ore deposits.
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(PDF) Nickel Laterite Smelting Processes and Some
many small older iron blast furnaces were available to be transitioned to smelting calcined laterites. The production of pig iron (high-carbon material) from these blast furnaces led …
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Influence of SiO2 and MgO on Extraction of Nickel and …
The sulfation roasting leaching process has been investigated as an alternative method for recovering nickel and cobalt from laterite ore. This process involves converting the nickel and cobalt in the ore into sulfates, which can then be dissolved through water leaching, while the iron remains as an insoluble oxide. However, the …
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High-Grade Ferronickel Concentrates Prepared from Laterite Nickel …
Nickel is widely used in industrial processes and plays a crucial role in many applications. However, most of the nickel resource mainly exists as nickel oxide in laterite nickel ore with complex composition, resulting in difficulty in upgrading the nickel content using physical separation methods. In this study, high-grade ferronickel concentrates …
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Minerals | Free Full-Text | Nickel Laterites—Mineralogical …
Nickel laterite ore is used to produce nickel metal, predominantly to manufacture stainless steel as well as nickel sulfate, a key ingredient in the batteries that drive electric vehicles. Nickel laterite production is on the rise and surpassing conventional sulfide deposits. The efficiency of mining and processing nickel laterites is defined by …
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Upgrade of nickel and iron from low-grade nickel laterite by …
In this study, an improved direct reduction and magnetic separation process was proposed by addition of low-nickel concentrates as nucleating agent combined with low quantity …
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(PDF) Valorization of Solid Residue from the Lateritic Nickel …
An alternative laterite nickel ore processing using sulfuric acid as a leaching agent to produce class 1 nickel as a raw material for electric vehicle batteries produces natrojarosite residue as a ...
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Extraction Behavior of Nickel and Cobalt From Serpentine
The demand for nickel has been steadily increasing in the 21st century, primarily driven by the rising demand for electric vehicle batteries. Nickel in laterite is associated within silicate in saprolite ore and hydroxide/oxide in limonite ore. Recently, the sulfation–roasting–leaching process has been developed to address the challenges of …
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Atmospheric Leaching Behavior and Kinetics Study of Roasted Laterite …
Laterite ore is a valuable resource due to its high content of metals essential for modern technology, including nickel, iron, and cobalt. However, extracting nickel from laterite ores is challenging due to their complex mineral composition and low nickel concentrations. This study examined the leaching behavior of pre-roasted laterite ore …
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Effective separation and recovery of iron and chromium from laterite …
Nickel laterite ores account for 64 % of the global nickel ore supply and are widely distributed in equatorial area (Ilyas et al., 2020, Lei et al., 2020, Zhang et al., 2015). These minerals are mainly produced through the long-term weathering of ultramafic rocks ( Lv et al., 2021 ), which mainly contain serpentine laterite ores and limonitic ...
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Iron precipitation from nickel laterite ores using sulfuric …
One of nickel laterite processing is leaching in sulfuric acid solution. To produce a product with high levels of the metal nickel-metal impurities that come dissolved, particularly iron must be removed first from the results of the leaching solution. After separating the iron, nickel is deposited so that an intermediate product is produced in ...
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Efficient enrichment of nickel and iron in laterite nickel …
The process of deep reduction and magnetic separation was proposed to enrich nickel and iron from laterite nickel ores. Results show that nickel–iron concentrates with nickel grade of 6.96%, nickel recovery of 94.06%, iron grade of 34.74%, and iron recovery of 80.44% could be obtained after magnetic separation under the …
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Efficient enrichment of nickel and iron in laterite nickel ore …
The process of deep reduction and magnetic separation was proposed to enrich nickel and iron from laterite nickel ores. Results show that nickel–iron concentrates with nickel grade of 6.96%, nickel recovery of 94.06%, iron grade of 34.74%, and iron recovery of 80.44% could be obtained after magnetic separation under the …
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