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Anode slimes treatment: The boliden experience

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  • Precious Metals: Pyrometallurgy
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There are numerous approaches to the treatment of both copper and lead anode slimes. Although the chemistry and metallurgy has been described and discussed by many authors, few, if any, have described the environmental impact of these activities. Dust and especially selenium emissions are a problem both in the internal working environment as well as in the external environment.

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  1. Boliden Contech AB, USA

    Bjorn M. Ludvigsson (vice president marketing, the in-house engineering company)

  2. the Boliden Group, USA

    Bjorn M. Ludvigsson (vice president marketing, the in-house engineering company)

  3. the Precious Metals Plant, Boliden Mineral AB, Ronnskar Smelter, USA

    Stig R. Larsson (manager)

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For more information, contact B.M. Ludvigsson, Boliden Contech AB, P.O. Box 745 Skelleftea 93127, Sweden; e-mail bjorn.ludvigsson@contech.boliden.se.

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Ludvigsson, B.M., Larsson, S.R. Anode slimes treatment: The boliden experience. JOM 55, 41–44 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-003-0087-x

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