US Patent Issued to Jetti Resources on Sept. 16 for "Process for leaching metal sulfides with reagents having thiocarbonyl functional groups" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,066, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Jetti Resources LLC (Boulder, Colo.).

"Process for leaching metal sulfides with reagents having thiocarbonyl functional groups" was invented by David Dixon (Delta, Canada), Edouard Asselin (Richmond, Canada), Zihe Ren (Richmond, Canada) and Nelson Mora Huertas (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application pertains to methods of recovering metals from metal sulfides that involve contacting the metal sulfide with an acidic sulfate solution containing ferric sulfate and a reagent that has a thiocarbonyl functional group, wherein the concentration of reagent in the acidic sulfat...