The Current Status of Laterite Nickel Ore Resources and Advance in its Processing Technology
Received:April 23, 2013   Revised:April 29, 2013   Accepted:May 07, 2013      Published Online:September 09, 2014
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KeyWord:laterite nickel ore;current status;processing technology;progress
     
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LIU Yun-feng China-Africa Investment and development Co,Ltd
CHEN Bin College of Metallurgical Engineering,Hunan University of Technology,Hunan Zhuzhou
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      With the depletion of sulfide nickel ores, developing nickel laterite ores in a high efficiency and low cost method is significant to meet the increasing requirement of nickel. The article introduced the status and properties about laterite ore in the world. Meanwhile, this article introduced the present technologies for dealing with nickel-bearing laterite, which contained pyro-metallurgical process, hydro-metallurgical extraction and other technologies. The advantages and disadvantages of these methods are also analyzed. At the same time, it pointed out future developmental direction in hope of providing reference for exploitation of low grade laterite ores.
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