Inventors:
Jay B. Clitheroe - Salt Lake City UT
Robert Brantley Sudderth - Tucson AZ
Assignee:
General Mills Chemicals Co. - Tucson AZ
Mineral & Chemical Resource Co. - Houston TX
International Classification:
C01G 900
Abstract:
Zinc values are leached or converted in a solution containing excess SO. sub. 2 or HSO. sub. 3. sup. - ions, selectively extracted from that solution into an organic phase containing organo acid phosphates and stripped from the organic phase for further processing.