Present Situation and Research Progress of Comprehensive Utilization of Antimony Tailings and Smelting Slag

Zeen Yu, Lei Wang (), Qi Zheng (), Xiaokui Che, Xinglan Cui, Shenyu Wei, Hongxia Li and Xinyue Shi
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Zeen Yu: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Lei Wang: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Qi Zheng: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Xiaokui Che: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Xinglan Cui: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Shenyu Wei: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Hongxia Li: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China
Xinyue Shi: GRINM Resources and Environment Tech. Co., Ltd., Beijing 100088, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 18, 1-17

Abstract: The production process of antimony produces a large amount of solid waste, such as waste rock in mining, tailings in the beneficiation, metallurgical slag in the smelting, and so on. At present, most of these solid wastes are currently in storage, and the storage of a large amount of solid wastes is not only harmful to the local ecological environment but also a waste of resources. In view of this situation, this paper will take antimony tailings and metallurgical slag as examples and summarize them according to their different treatment methods. The comprehensive utilization of antimony tailings is mainly recovering metals by beneficiation and metallurgy and using antimony tailings as building materials and underground filling materials, while the comprehensive utilization method of antimony metallurgical slag is mainly the recovery of valuable metals by pyrometallurgy or hydrometallurgy or the stabilization technology. This paper summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of different treatment methods and puts forward the prospect of future research directions for the treatment of different metallurgical slags and tailings.

Keywords: antimony tailings; antimony metallurgical slag; resource recovery; sorting; comprehensive utilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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