Antimony metallurgy

V. H. Aprahamian and D. G. Demopoulos, The Solution Chemistry and Solvent Extraction Behaviour of copper, iron, nickel, zinc, lead, tin, Ag, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, selenium and tellurium in Acid Chloride Solutions Reviewed from the Standpoint of PGM Refining, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, Vol. 14, p. 143,1995. 

U.S. imports by class and country, 3 49t world mine production, reserves, and reserve base, 3 42t Antimony (III) acetate, 3 65 Antimony alloys, 3 41-56 compositional ranges, 3 52t process metallurgy, 3 44-47 selenium and metallurgy of, 22 98 uses of, 3 51-54... 

Not much is known of the element s use until the knowledge of metallurgy developed in the late eighteenth century, when arsenic, antimony, and bismuth were used to form alloys with other metals. 

Wang, Antimony, Its History, Chemistry, Mineialogy, Geology, Metallurgy, Uses, Preparations, Analysis, Production, and Valuation, Chas. Griffin and Co., London, 1909, pp. 1-5... 

Roasting furnaces are used to react sulfides to produce metal oxides, which can be converted to metals in the next process step. The sulfides are used as a reducing agent in nonferrous metallurgy for the recovery of metals. The process has been used for metals such as copper, lead, zinc, nickel, magnesium, tin, antimony, and titanium. 

In the metallurgy of antimony the pure metal is recovered by different reactions, depending on the composition of the ore. For example, iron is used to reduce antimony in sulfide ores ... 

For tile historical development of the vslatilisaiiou process, vide the chapter on the Metallurgy of Antimony,... 

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