Recovery of rhodium

摘要

Rhodium is recovered from an aqueous precious metal solution by first contacting the solution with stannous chloride at a Sn:Rh molar ratio of at least 2:1 to produce activated Rh solution; solvent extracting rhodium from the activated solution with an organic extractant to produce an organic phase containing Rh; the Rh can be recovered from the organic phases by burning-off the organic, precipitating Rh by reduction or stripping with a stripping agent and recovering Rh from an Rh-loaded stripping agent; the method produces high yields of Rh in short periods as compared with time consuming prior procedures.