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Gold Leaching from Copper Anode Slime with 1-Butly-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride

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The aim of this study was to realize gold leaching from copper anode slime (CAS) with ionic liquid treatment. A novel medium, 1-butyl -3-methyl-imidazolium chloride (BmimCl), was used as the leaching reagent. The effects of ionic liquid concentration, temperature, time ,and solid/liquid ratio (S/L) on the leaching efficiency were investigated by Taguchi optimization and ANOVA methods. The results showed that 61.20% of gold leaching efficiency was achieved from CAS, under the optimum leaching conditions which were determined as %80 ionic liquid concentration, 50°C temperature, 1 h time and 1/20 g/mL solid/liquid ratio. The statistical results of the experiments revealed that the effects of each parameter on the gold leaching with BmimCl were in the following order: temperature > time > solid/liquid ratio > ionic liquid concentration.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) for support with grant number 116-M-057.

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  1. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey

    Mehmet Ali Topçu & Aydın Rüşen

  2. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey

    Volkan Kalem

  3. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, Bilecik, Turkey

    Özkan Küçük

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Topçu, M.A., Rüşen, A., Kalem, V. et al. Gold Leaching from Copper Anode Slime with 1-Butly-3-Methyl Imidazolium Chloride. JOM 74, 2120–2128 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05249-5

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