Effect of mineralogy and reducing agent on reduction of saprolitic nickel ores

A Bunjaku, M Kekkonen, K Pietilä… - Mineral Processing …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… and gas reductant on the reduction of nickel laterites. Three … , nickel production from laterite
ores is relatively complex, since … It implies that the Mirabela ore has been reduced the best at …

Nonmolten state metalized reduction of saprolitic laterite ores: Effective extraction and process optimization of nickel and iron

B Ma, X Li, W Yang, D Hu, P Xing, B Liu… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
laterite was subjected to a technology below melting … further reduction of FeO to metallic
iron by fixed carbon is difficult. … as a reducing agent, the metalization and reduction of laterite is …

Upgrading low nickel content laterite ores using selective reduction followed by magnetic separation

DQ Zhu, Y Cui, K Vining, S Hapugoda… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
… Firstly, sensitive control of the CO/CO 2 ratio is difficult to … Hence 40% was identified as
the optimum SN ore dosage. … So, S 2 could potentially form a low melting point sulfide with …

Effect of binary basicity (CaO/SiO2) on selective reduction of lateritic nickel ore

F Nurjaman, K Saekhan, F Bahfie, W Astuti… - Periodico di …, 2021 - rosa.uniroma1.it
Lateritic nickel ore processing is more complicated than … optimum nickel grade in the selective
reduction of lateritic … selective reduction of nickel laterites, the presence of a low melting

Sodium thiosulfate and natural sulfur: novel potential additives for selective reduction of limonitic laterite ore

S Pintowantoro, AB Widyartha, Y Setiyorini… - Journal of Sustainable …, 2021 - Springer
… break down the complex structure of laterite, thus enhancing … The sub-bituminous coal
was used as a reducing agent. The … as binder, facilitating the easy fusion of raw materials in …

Smelting of difficult laterite ores

MY Solar, S Mostaghel - Mineral Processing and Extractive …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
selection of the target ferronickel grade for a new project is thus a compromise between
the economic optimum for a given ore… would then be re-melted when the metal inventory is …

Utilization of limonitic nickel laterite to produce ferronickel concentrate by the selective reduction-magnetic separation process

D Zhu, L Pan, Z Guo, J Pan, F Zhang - Advanced Powder Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
… and complicated micro structure of limonitic laterite ore. … if the reduction duration is excessive
long, the reduction agent … in the subsequent melting process could be reduced by over 75%…

Effects of Na2SO4 on iron and nickel reduction in a high-iron and low-nickel laterite ore

X Wang, T Sun, C Chen, J Kou - International Journal of Minerals …, 2018 - Springer
… characteristic fusion temperatures of Na2SO4–laterite mixture … sample ore to be reacted
with lignite as the reducing agent … , making further reduction more difficult than the reduction of …

The effect of additives on extraction of Ni, Fe and Co from nickel laterite ores

J Dong, Y Wei, S Zhou, B Li, Y Yang, A Mclean - Jom, 2018 - Springer
… Since laterite ores have a complicated mineralogy, … with the melting point of FeS (1194C),
and that of iron (1538C). This low-melting eutectic decreases the fusion temperatures of laterite

Effects of reducing parameters on the size of ferronickel particles in the reduced laterite nickel ores

X Jiang, L He, L Wang, D Xiang, H An… - Metallurgical and materials …, 2020 - Springer
… the reduction behavior and melting behavior of the laterite ore-… meet the requirement for
reducing agent. Another function of … If the diameter is too big, it is difficult for the iron oxides and …