The intensified effects of ferric phosphate and ferric sulfate as nutrient and oxidant on the bioleaching of pentlandite concentrate with Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans were studied. The results showed that the nickel leaching rate was enhanced continuously with FePO4 or Fe2(SO4)3 added in certain extent, but declined at excess. For A. ferrooxidans, the optimum additive amount of Fe2(SO4)3 was 6.63mM/L and the nickel leaching rate reached 71.76%. Compared with Fe2(SO4)3, the optimum additive amount of FePO4 was 26.52mM/L for both strains. For A. ferrooxidans and S. thermosulfidooxidans, the nickel leaching rate could increase to 98.06% and 98.11% which was 1.83 times and 1.55 times of the leachig rate of blank test, respectively.
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Li, Q., Lai, H., Yang, Y., Xu, B., Jiang, T., & Zhang, Y. (2016). Effect of ferric ions on bioleaching of pentlandite concentrate. In Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2016 (pp. 345–353). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48210-1_42
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