Knelsons Recovery of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)

April 9th, 2001

The unstable demand for base metals (copper, nickel and cobalt) has necessitated new technologies to be worked out to significantly increase the recovery of platinum-group metals (PGM) from ores of the Norilsk deposits which would raise the profitability of mining and concentrating works. This is dictated by the constantly growing demand for PGMs and the fact the share of these metals have been rising in the commodity output by the Norilsk Mining Company processing copper-nickel ores.

In order to make the PGM production more independent from that of base metals, it is necessary to set it apart as autonomous from production of copper and nickel. This is possible through shorter process flowsheets from mining to refining of PGMs. The respective choose the best from such process flowsheets and the equipment should be based on the data obtained from mineralogical study of PGM ores mode occurance.

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