WO2014082113A1 - Traitement de minerais et de concentrés contenant des terres rares et de l'uranium - Google Patents

Traitement de minerais et de concentrés contenant des terres rares et de l'uranium Download PDF

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WO2014082113A1
WO2014082113A1 PCT/AU2012/001463 AU2012001463W WO2014082113A1 WO 2014082113 A1 WO2014082113 A1 WO 2014082113A1 AU 2012001463 W AU2012001463 W AU 2012001463W WO 2014082113 A1 WO2014082113 A1 WO 2014082113A1
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  • the present invention relates to the processing of rare earth and uranium containing ores and concentrates. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for the hydrometallurgical processing of rare earth and uranium containing ores and concentrates.
  • the method of the present invention is intended to provide relatively efficient separation of rare earth elements from the uranium present in the ore or concentrate.
  • nuisance elements some of which are radioactive. Chief amongst these "nuisance" elements are the metals iron, thorium and uranium. Of course, one or more of these so-called nuisance elements may add value to any operation that targets primarily the rare earth elements.
  • a hard rock rare earth element containing ore will require acid leaching of the ore and a subsequent multitude of separation steps, making the processing of ores to recover rare earth elements particularly costly and time consuming.
  • acid consumption has traditionally been high.
  • the minerals hosting the target rare earth metals typically also contain silica that is readily acid soluble also. Unless the leach conditions are controlled very carefully the leaching of silica may result in the precipitation of silica gels.
  • One object of the present invention is to substantially overcome the abovementioned problems of the prior art, or to at least provide a useful alternative thereto.
  • step (ii) Passing the rare earth phosphate of step (i) to a first atmospheric leach step in which the rare earth phosphate concentrate is leached in weak acid;
  • step (iii) Passing the product of step (ii) to a first solid liquid separation step
  • step (iv) Passing the liquid product of step (iii) to a uranium recovery circuit;
  • step (v) Passing the solids product of step (iii) to second atmospheric leach step in which the solids are leached in strong acid and in which substantially all the rare earth elements present precipitate as sodium rare earth double sulphates, wherein the conditions of the first and second leach steps are controlled such that substantially no silica gelling occurs.
  • the first and second leach steps are conducted with sulphuric acid.
  • the combined residence time of the first and second leach steps is greater than about 16 hours
  • the combined residence time of the first and second leach steps is about 18 hours.
  • the first leach step is preferably conducted at a temperature of greater than about 80°C but less than boiling.
  • the first leach step is still preferably conducted at a temperature of about 95°C.
  • the second leach step is preferably conducted at a temperature of greater than about 80°C but less than boiling.
  • the second leach step is still preferably conducted at a temperature of about 95°C.
  • the first leach step is preferably conducted at a pH of about 2 to 3.
  • the first leach step is still preferably conducted with a free acid concentration of less than 1 gpl.
  • the second leach step is preferably conducted at a pH of less than about 1.
  • the second leach step is still preferably conducted with a free acid concentration of between 30 to 80 pgl.
  • the method preferably further comprises:
  • step (v) Passing the product of step (v) to a second solid liquid separation step.
  • the method still preferably further comprises:
  • the caustic solution of the metathesis step is a sodium hydroxide solution.
  • the method still yet preferably further comprises:
  • the acid re-leach step is conducted with hydrochloric acid.
  • Figure 1 is a flow sheet depicting a method for the hydrometallurgical processing of a rare earth ore or concentrate in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is a graphical representation of acid demand relative to pH for the leaching of Kvanefjeld ore
  • Figure 3 is a graphical representation of the effect of pH on silica dissolution during leaching of Kvanefjeld ore at differing temperatures.
  • Figure 4 is a graphical representation of pH relative to silica concentration in solution at differing particle sizes.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a method 10 for the hydrometallurgical processing of rare earth ores and concentrates.
  • the method 10 comprises the passing of a rare earth phosphate concentrate 12 to a re-pulp stage 14 in which is produced a concentrate slurry.
  • the concentrate 12 is produced initially by way of a conventional crushing and milling circuit from a run of mine rare earth ore (not shown). The run of mine ore is first tipped into a gyratory crusher and ultimately fed to a SAG mill in which the ore is ground to a Pso of 75 m.
  • the ground ore is passed to a concentration step, for example a froth flotation step (not shown), in which selected flotation reagents are utilised whereby phosphitic minerals become selectively hydrophobic allowing their effective separation and the production of the rare earth phosphate concentrate 12.
  • a concentration step for example a froth flotation step (not shown), in which selected flotation reagents are utilised whereby phosphitic minerals become selectively hydrophobic allowing their effective separation and the production of the rare earth phosphate concentrate 12.
  • Rare earth phosphate flotation occurs within tank cells (not shown) with forced air addition to control froth rate.
  • a first stage consists of short residence time rougher flotation with the concentrate produced reporting to the final concentrate thickener.
  • the grade of this concentrate is high enough that cleaning of the concentrate is not warranted.
  • the tails from the rougher flotation stage proceed to the scavenger flotation in which flotation occurs for an additional 10 minutes.
  • the scavenger concentrate is not of suitable grade to be considered final concentrate. Therefore cleaning of the concentrate is required.
  • the flotation tailings are thickened in a high rate thickener with the overflow water recovered for use as process water.
  • the concentrate slurry is passed to a first atmospheric leach step 16 in which it is leached with weak sulphuric acid solution at a temperature of at least about 80°C but without boiling, for example 90 to 95°C, preferably 95°C, and a density of about 15% solids.
  • the first atmospheric leach step has a residence time of at least about 6 hours, for example about 10 hours, and the leach has a pH of between about 2 to 3, preferably 2.2, and a free acid concentration of less than about 1 gpl.
  • a slurry from the leach step 16 is then passed to a first solid liquid separation step, utilising for example a thickener 18, in which leach liquor is separated from leach solids.
  • the leach liquor, or pregnant leach solution (PLS) is passed to a uranium recovery circuit 20.
  • the leach solids, or concentrate slurry is passed to a second atmospheric leach step 22 in which it is leached with strong sulphuric acid solution at a temperature of at least about 80°C but without boiling, for example 90 to 95°C, preferably 95°C, and at a pH of less than about 1.
  • the leach step 22 is operated at a density of about 32% solids over a residence time of at least about 6 hours, preferably about 8 hours, with a free acid concentration of between about 30 to 80 gpl.
  • the uranium and rare earths present are initially leached from the concentrate into solution.
  • the significant majority of the rare earths precipitate from solution as sodium-rare earth-double sulphates.
  • the uranium reports to the pregnant leach solution or liquor whilst the rare earths report to the solids residue, thereby separating the rare earth elements from the substantial majority of the contaminants.
  • a minor amount of uranium also forms a stable sulphate precipitate in the leach stages 16 and 22 and thereby reports to the leach residue. For example, it is understood that about 0.5% of the uranium present reports to the residue in this manner.
  • the relatively long combined leach residence time and relatively high temperature employed in the leach steps 16 and 22 ensures, together with the gradual dosing of acid, that the rate of silica precipitation is greater than the rate of silica leaching. In this manner the silica precipitates without significant formation of gels, reporting to the leach residue. The silica is consequently not reactive throughout the remainder of the method 10 once precipitated and reports ultimately to tailings.
  • a residue slurry from the leach step 22 is passed to a second solid liquid separation step, for example a filtration step 24.
  • the filtration step 24 is conducted using, for example, a belt filter, washing with barren sodium sulphate wash water from the uranium recovery circuit 20 and then with raw water to remove dissolved contaminants from filter cake. Liquids from the filtration step 24 are returned to the leach step 16.
  • Filter cake from the filtration step 24 is re-pulped and passed to a metathesis step 26 in which it is contacted with a strong caustic solution, for example sodium hydroxide, whereby the sodium-rare earth element-double sulphates are converted into rare earth element hydroxides.
  • a strong caustic solution for example sodium hydroxide
  • the sodium hydroxide is dosed to achieve a pH of greater than 9.5, the residence time is about 2 hours, and the temperature is in the range of about 10 to 70°C. It is envisaged that other alkalis may be utilised in the metathesis step 26, including sodium carbonate, calcium hydroxide and magnesium oxide.
  • the rare earth element (REE) hydroxides are amenable to subsequent mild leaching with hydrochloric acid.
  • the metathesis step 26 is conducted in a series of three continuously stirred tank reactors (not shown) for 2 hours at ambient temperature.
  • the metathesis slurry is thickened, filtered and washed.
  • the resulting filter cake is advanced to a mild acid re- leach step 28.
  • the spent metathesis solution is recycled with a bleed sent to effluent treatment.
  • the mild acid re-leach step 28 involves the leaching of the residue or filter cake from the metathesis step 26 with hydrochloric acid at a pH in the range of about 1 to 4.
  • the re-leach step 28 is preferably conducted so as to minimise aluminium and iron re-dissolution, achieved using a pH of about 3.
  • the filter cake from the metathesis step 26 is re-pulped to 30% w/w solids in barren liquor and pumped to a metathesis re- leach circuit in which the re-leach step 28 is conducted.
  • the re-leach circuit comprises three agitated tanks which provide a total of 1 hour residence time. Concentrated hydrochloric acid is added to either of the first two tanks to achieve a desired discharge pH of 3.0.
  • the resultant slurry is pumped to a re-leach thickener (not shown) where flocculant is added and solids are thickened to 25% w/w solids and pumped to a filter feed tank which provides surge capacity.
  • Thickened slurry is dewatered and washed with barren liquor in a plate-and- frame filter press (not shown) to remove soluble rare earth elements.
  • Filter cake at 55% w/w solids is re-pulped in a re-pulp tank (not shown) before being sent to a residue storage facility 30. Filtrate is returned to the re-leach thickener.
  • Re-leach thickener overflow, or chloride product liquor is collected in a tank that provides surge capacity and is pumped to an impurity removal step 32.
  • lime and barium salts are utilised to precipitate iron, radionuclide and aluminium impurities that pass to effluent treatment 34.
  • the chloride product liquor from the metathesis step 26 cascades through two trains of three agitated tanks (not shown) which provide a total of 6.0 hours residence time. Lime slurry is added to either of the first two tanks to achieve the desired discharge pH of 3.0. The resultant slurry is pumped to a thickener (not shown) where flocculant is added and solids are thickened to 25% w/w solids. Half of this material is re-circulated to the first agitated tank.as seed, whilst the remainder is pumped to the filter feed tank.
  • Thickened slurry is dewatered and washed with barren liquor in a plate-and- frame filter press to recover contained soluble rare earth elements.
  • Filter cake at 50% w/w solids is discharged into a re-pulp tank (not shown) and then pumped to effluent treatment 34. Filtrate is returned to the thickener.
  • Thickener overflow is forwarded to an ion exchange step 36 in which uranium and thorium are substantially removed from the chloride product liquor. This recovers uranium to produce additional product and prevents contamination of rare earth products.
  • the ion exchange step 36 employs ion exchange to selectively extract the uranium and thorium from solution in known manner.
  • the functional group for one suitable resin for uranium and thorium removal in such a step is Pyridinium (available in one form under the commercial name CleanTeq R-304TM). It is envisaged that other anion exchange resins may also be used in this step.
  • the remaining chloride product liquor is passed to a lead removal step 38.
  • the lead removal step 36 utilises a sulphiding circuit (not shown). A small amount of uranium recovered in the ion exchange step 26 is recycled to the leach step 16.
  • the chloride product liquor from the ion exchange step 36 cascades through a train of three agitated tanks (not shown) which provide a total of 15 minutes residence time.
  • Sodium hydrosulphide solution is added to either of the first two tanks.
  • other sulphide precipitants may be utilised in this step, including Na 2 S, (NH 4 ) 2 S and H 2 S.
  • the resultant slurry is pumped to a thickener (not shown) where flocculant is added and solids are thickened. A majority of this material ( ⁇ 75%) is re-circulated to the first sulphiding reactor as seed, whilst the remainder is pumped to a filter feed tank (not shown) that provides surge capacity.
  • Thickened slurry is dewatered and washed with water in a plate-and-frame filter press to recover contained soluble rare earth elements.
  • Filter cake at 75% w/w solids is discharged into 2 m 3 lined bulka bags which are containerised for shipment off- site. Filtrate is returned to the sulphiding thickener.
  • Sulphiding thickener overflow is collected in a tank and is pumped through the Sulphiding polishing filter to remove fine solids contaminants from downstream processes.
  • Rare earth elements are subsequently precipitated from the chloride product liquor as carbonate in a mixed rare earth element precipitation step 40.
  • the chloride product liquor is treated in a series of three continuously stirred tank reactors (not shown).
  • Sodium carbonate solution is dosed to control the pH at approximately 7.5 which results in the precipitation of rare earths as rare earth element carbonate.
  • a total of three hours residence time is provided.
  • rare earth precipitants other than sodium carbonate may be utilised, including calcium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, ammonia, magnesia, oxalic acid, sodium oxalate and the like.
  • the precipitated rare earth element carbonate solids are separated from the barren chloride product liquor in a thickener (not shown) to produce a thickened underflow. This underflow is further dewatered in a carbonate product filter (not shown) to produce a filter cake. The filter cake is washed with water to reduce chloride levels in a final rare earth element carbonate product 42, and is prepared for sale.
  • a polishing filter removes any fine rare earth carbonate solids from the rare earth element carbonate product thickener overflow to produce a barren chloride liquor. Most of the barren chloride liquor is recycled back to the re-leach step 28 with the excess sent to effluent treatment 34.
  • the grain size of the steenstrupine commonly ranges from 75 pm to over 500 pm, whilst in the MC cieravrite, grain size can exceed 1 mm.
  • Other minerals that are important hosts to REEs include the phosphate mineral vitusite and, to a lesser extent, britholite and minor monazite.
  • uranium is also hosted in unusual zirconium silicate minerals of the lovozerite and eudialyte groups. In these zirconium-silicates a portion of the zirconium is substituted by several hundred ppm each of uranium, yttrium, HREE and tin.
  • Zinc is hosted in the sulphide mineral sphalerite, which is the dominant sulphide throughout the deposit. Lovozerite group minerals coexist with steenstrupine, whereas eudialyte group minerals are present at deeper, lower grade levels of the deposits.
  • phosphate bearing minerals e.g. steenstrupine
  • zirconium ⁇ silicates are the dominant hosts to REEs and uranium, with the zirconium ⁇ silicates being of secondary importance.
  • the zirconium silicates become increasingly important hosts to uranium.
  • the mine schedule established for the Study is focussed in greater than 300 ppm U 3 0 8 resource material that dominates the upper level of the Kvanefjeld deposit.
  • Lujavrite gangue minerals consist of 60% sodium aluminosilicates and 40% sodium iron pyriboles. The total ore minerals typically comprise 5 - 10% of the rock volume as disseminated grains. Trace components of the rock also include water soluble sodium silicate and sodium phosphate minerals together with humic material. Uranium, REE, and zinc mineralisation is orthomagmatic, having crystallised from the huiavrite melt along with the silicate gangue.
  • the Rare Earth Phosphate (REP) flotation is an important part of the method of the present invention as it allows the concentration of the majority of target values in approximately 10% of the original mass of the whole of ore.
  • Flotation is performed with commercially available reagents which include sodium silicate and hydroximates.
  • the flotation circuit consists of roughing, scavenging and cleaning of the concentrate.
  • Extensive laboratory testwork also included pilot plant campaigns. The blended concentrate derived from the pilot plant was used as the main feed source for the leaching investigations. Further bench scale testwork has indicated the concentrate produced is likely to be lower grade than that expected in a commercial operation due to sub-optimal pilot plant performance. Nonetheless it still provides a good example of the likely commercial concentrate derived from Kvanefjeld.
  • the ore type used for the pilot plant testwork was from an area designated as "Domain A" within the Kvanefjeld deposit.
  • the leach response of concentrates derived from other "Domains" and areas of the Kvanefjeld deposit were also investigated to determine their variability.
  • the Table below provides a comparison of Domain A ore and rare earth phosphate concentrate composition:
  • cerium can be used as a proxy for the upgrade of light rare earth elements while yttrium can be used as a proxy for the upgrade of heavy rare earth elements.
  • Na + + RE 3+ + 2S0 4 2 ⁇ + xH 2 0 NaRE(S0 4 )2.xH 2 0 (1)
  • the double salt solubility increases with increasing lanthanide atomic weight.
  • Light rare earth elements (La to Nd) are almost insoluble, middle rare earths (Sm to Gd) have limited solubility while heavy rare earths (Tb-Lu including Y) are sparingly soluble.
  • Tb-Lu including Y heavy rare earths
  • Increased temperature and concentration of reactants shifts the reaction (1) equilibrium strongly to the right. Under certain conditions it is possible to precipitate nearly all heavy rare earth elements from solution as double sulphates in addition to all of the light and middle rare earth elements.
  • NaRE(S0 4 ) 2 .xH 2 0 + 3NaOH RE(OH) 3 + 2Na 2 S0 4 + xH 2 0 (2)
  • Hydrochloric acid was selected for this testwork and other amenability testwork due to the limited solubility of light rare earth elements in sulphate solutions containing alkalis.
  • This reaction forms long chained dimers which grow and encapsulate water.
  • Variables known to influence silica precipitation include: time, temperature, pH, seeding, fluoride, ferric and aluminium ions in solution. Essentially conditions need to be controlled to allow heterogeneous precipitation of silica to occur, forming crystalline solids rather than gels.
  • FIG. 3 shows that silica starts to leach significantly into solution at approximately pH 3.0.
  • the concentration of fine silica in solution is higher with low temperature and considerably lower with high temperature of 95°C. This indicates the rate of silica precipitation was much faster at high temperature. Both lower temperature solutions resulted in gel formation. At 95 °C the rate of silica precipitation and leaching were such that low supersaturation levels were maintained thus avoiding significant silica gelling.
  • FIG. 4 shows that silica particle growth started to occur significantly at pH 2.2 as evidenced by the difference between filtrate concentrations. As the pH was decreased further there was an increase in the rate of silica dissolution from the minerals. Four hours was allowed for the silica to reach equilibrium at all pH points and this was not enough time for the silica to precipitate. Nonetheless, continued particle growth was observed which suggests heterogeneous (self seeded) precipitation was occurring.
  • Atmospheric leaching is made particularly relevant for the Kvanefjeld deposit by virtue of the unusual nature of the rare earth element and uranium-bearing minerals.
  • the value minerals ore minerals
  • the Kvanefjeld ore minerals disintegrate, liberating the rare earths and uranium into solution. This leads to high extractions of >85% for heavy rare earths and >90% for uranium within an atmospheric leach.
  • the atmospheric leach conditions are managed to drive rare earth elements into the leach residue as salts. This cleanly separates the REEs from uranium that remains stable in solution.
  • the residue is treated with caustic soda, rendering it amenable to a mild re-leach, the re-leach producing a rare earth element chloride solution. A single mixed rare earth element product is then precipitated from this chloride solution. Because of the clean initial separation from the gangue elements, very low post leach losses are experienced.
  • Uranium is recovered from the atmospheric leach solution by means of a highly selective solvent extraction process. Solvent extraction has been successfully tested at bench scale and, as a proven technology for uranium extraction, is considered low risk and straight forward to engineer. A final uranium oxide product is produced at this stage.
  • the method of the present invention is able to achieve high extractions of valuable rare earth elements and uranium from a mineral concentrate in an atmospheric leach.
  • a high quality mixed rare earth oxide product can be produced which is suitable for rare earth separation refineries.
  • the mixed rare earth oxide product is low in radionuclides and contains significant quantities of heavy rare earth elements.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé (10) permettant le traitement hydrométallurgique de minerais et de concentrés contenant des terres rares et de l'uranium. Le procédé comprend les étapes consistant à : (i) soumettre un minerai de terres rares à une étape de concentration au cours de laquelle un concentré de phosphate de terres rares (12) est produit; (ii) soumettre le phosphate de terres rares obtenu à l'étape (i) à une première étape de lixiviation atmosphérique (16) au cours de laquelle le concentré de phosphate de terres rares est lixivié dans un acide faible; (iii) soumettre le produit obtenu à l'étape (ii) à une première étape de séparation solide-liquide (18); (iv) transférer le produit liquide obtenu à l'étape (iii) dans un circuit de récupération d'uranium (20); et (v) soumettre le produit de solides obtenu à l'étape (iii) à une seconde étape de lixiviation atmosphérique (24) au cours de laquelle les solides sont lixiviés dans un acide fort et au cours de laquelle sensiblement tous les éléments de terres rares présents précipitent sous forme de sulfates doubles de sodium et de terres rares, les conditions des première et seconde étapes de lixiviation (16, 24) étant contrôlées d'une manière telle qu'il ne se produit sensiblement aucune gélification de la silice.
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