Preparation of Arsenic Oxide and High Purity Ultrafine Antimony Compounds from Flue Dust Containing Arsenic and Antimony

1 INTRODUCTIONIt is estimated that there are about 6000 tons of arsenic loaded into smelters along with theirvarious concentrates each year in China(reference data from 1986).As result,a lot of flue dustcontaning arsenic and antimony is produced.Utilization and treatment of this flue dust are ofsignificance for the econony of recovery of arsenic and antimony and the environmental protection.But conventional treatment processes of Pyrometallurgical volatilization and hydrometallurgicalleaching are unsatisfactory because of the difficulty in seperating As and Sb as well as inpreventing secondary pollution.This research is intended to develop a new low temperaturechlorination-distillation process with high recovery of val uables and low pollution.