Beneficiation of nickeliferous laterite by reduction roasting in the presence of sodium sulfate

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• 作者：Guanghui Li¹ ; ^{liguangh@csu.edu.cn} ; Tangming Shi ; Mingjun Rao ; ² ; ^{raomingjun2003@yahoo.com.cn} ; Tao Jiang ; ² ; ^{jiangtao@csu.edu.cn} ; Yuanbo Zhang
• 关键词：Laterite ; Reduction roasting ; Magnetic separation ; Ferronickel ; Sodium sulfate
• 刊名：Minerals Engineering
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：130_08926875
• 类别：et
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：32
• 期：Complete
• 页码：19-26
• 文件大小：2302 K

摘要

In this paper, the reduction roasting of laterite ore in the absence or presence of sodium sulfate was carried out for nickel beneficiation by wet magnetic separation. Sodium sulfate is found to be capable of enhancing the reduction of laterite ore through liberating iron and nickel from Ni/Fe substituted-lizardite, as well as increasing the size of ferronickel particles considerably. When the laterite pellets were reduced at 1100 掳C for 60 min, the average particle size of ferronickel grains was approximately 50 渭m in the presence of sodium sulfate, which far exceeded the size of 5-10 渭m in the absence of sodium sulfate. Compared with those reduced without sodium sulfate, the Ni grade of ferronickel concentrate increased from 2.33%to 9.48%, and the magnetic separation recovery of Ni increased from 56.97%to 83.01%with the addition of 20 wt.%sodium sulfate. Experimental evidence showed that troilite (FeS) serves as an activating agent to accelerate melt phase formation via a low melting point (985 掳C) Fe-FeS eutectic. This markedly facilitated the aggregation of ferronickel particles during reduction, along with the selective enrichment of Ni by suppressing the complete metallization of Fe.