OPTIMIZED ORE PROCESSING USING MOLTEN SALTS FOR LEACHING AND THERMAL ENERGY SOURCE

摘要

An environmentally friendly leaching process for extracting and depositing metals from ore and slag is provided. The steps comprise: a. heating, mixing and dissolving ore or slag until the mixture is a liquid solution; b. separating the liquid solution via filtration or decanting; c. transferring the liquid solution into an electro-chemical reactor; d. applying a current between a cathode and an anode electrode of the chemical reactor to electrify the liquid solution; and, e. electro-depositing metal onto the cathode electrode from the metal ions in the electrified liquid solution. A system is also provided for implementing this process.