Abstract
There has been increased interest in the U. S. in developing the technology to recover aluminum from non-bauxite sources stemming from a need to develop domestic aluminum sources. This article briefly reviews the alternative methods for recovering aluminum, and then discusses in some detail one of these: the carbochlorination of plagioclase which can be recovered as a byproduct from the tailings of copper-nickel processing. Experimental results of the present research on the carbochlorination of plagioclase are presented along with some comments on a possible commercial process.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 59-62 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Metals |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| State | Published - 1982 |