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The thiourea leaching process for precious metals recovery has been studied as an alternative process to cyanidation. The accurate and simple determination of thiour a is important to guarantee the efficiency of the process and to eva uate the thiourea consumption during the gold and silver leaching from minerals; however, there is not, until now, a trustable method to determine the thiourea concentration for the high levels used in the extractive metallurgy industry. The present work, performed at CINVESTAV Saltillo, studies thermodynamically and experimentally, the thiourea determination by iodate titration in the search of a precise technique appropriate fo the high thiourea concentrations used in the leaching of precious metals. The thiourea titration by iodate in acid media permits the precise determination of high thiourea concentrations (up to 10,000 ppm). The acidification of thiourea (CS(NH2)2) produces protonated thiourea (HCS(NH2)+2 ) which reacts with iodate to form the protonated formamidine disulfide ([CS(NH2)2] 2 ). The presence of oxidant ions like cupric or ferric ions can oxidize the thiourea to formamidine disulfide (FDS2+), reducing the leaching strength of the solution.The iodate titration determines only the free thiourea that is available for the leaching of precious metals, and not the metal-thiourea complexes. When zinc dust is added to the solution before the titration, zinc reduces FDS2+ by regenerating the thiourea.

THIOUREA DETERMINATION FOR THE PRECIOUS METALS LEACHING PROCESS BY IODATE TITRATION