2015-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2015 Volume 11: Recycling & Environmental

Editors:Kongoli F, Havlik T, Pagnanelli F
Publisher:Flogen Star OUTREACH
Publication Year:2015
Pages:410 pages
ISBN:978-1-987820-34-8
ISSN:2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series)
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    Potential of Industrial Wastes Recycling From Lead, Zinc or Copper Industry to Contribute to the Supply of Minor Metals

    Stefan Steinlechner1; Juergen Antrekowitsch2;
    1CHAIR OF NONFERROUS METALLURGY, Leoben, Austria; 2CHRISTIAN DOPPLER LABORATORY FOR OPTIMIZATION AND BIOMASS UTILIZATION IN HEAVY METAL RECYCLING, Leoben, Austria;
    Type of Paper: Plenary
    Id Paper: 234
    Topic: 7

    Abstract:

    In the past, industrial residues were partly recycled in general focusing on the recovery of base metals like zinc, copper, lead or others. Indium, gold, silver and PGMs are accompaniments of lead, zinc or copper ores leading to significant and interesting contents also in the residues arising from the corresponding primary industry, but were not recovered in many cases in the last decades. Because of political unrest, strikes, economic reasons, or decreasing primary resources leading to supply risks also the minor metals, like the mentioned above, moved into the focus of the recycling industry. Therefore, beside the base metals, first of all the recovery of those minor metals would be of high interest contributing to the economic viability of recycling processes, although they occur in much smaller quantities in materials. Examples for such residues can be tailings, sludge, slags and in some cases dusts. The paper shows selected residues, their characteristics, possible treatment to recover next to base metals also selected minor ones and with this especially tries to answer the question on how recycling of such industrial residues can contribute in future to the overall production of for instance precious metals.

    Keywords:

    Lead; Recycling; Wastes; Zinc;

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    Steinlechner S and Antrekowitsch J. Potential of Industrial Wastes Recycling From Lead, Zinc or Copper Industry to Contribute to the Supply of Minor Metals. In: Kongoli F, Havlik T, Pagnanelli F, editors. Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit SIPS 2015 Volume 11: Recycling & Environmental. Volume 11. Montreal(Canada): FLOGEN Star Outreach. 2015. p. 89-102.