Mercury stabilization using thiosulfate or selenosulfate

Mercury is often found associated with gold and silver minerals in ore bodies. It is recovered as liquid elemental mercury in several stages including carbon adsorption, carbon elution, electrowinning and retorting. Thus a great amount of mercury is produced as a by-product in gold mines. The Mercur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhou, Zizheng
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44276