PROFESSOR A. RICHARD BURKIN MSc, PhD, CEng, CChem, FRCS, FIMM 1923 – 2008

Summary of Richard Burkin’s Career Born 1923, Stratford, East London, England 1942 BSc (Chemistry) Univ. of London then at Ilford Ltd working on war photographic projects 1945-52, Lecturer, Southampton Univ. College, MSc & PhD on metal-amine complexes in organic solvents 1952-60, Lecturer, Dept. Mineral Technology, RSM, Imperial College, London - surface & flotation chemistry 1960-88 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer , Reader and Professor Hydrometallurgy Research Group, Departments of Metallurgy and (later) Mineral Technology, RSM Consultancies with Davy Power Gas, Du Pont, Kennecott, Metallurgie-Hoboken & Interox Chemicals Spin-off Companies Consort Research Ltd, and METNET Died 2008, Brentwood, Essex, England Full Obituary & Bibliography by Prof A.J. Monhemius published in “Hydrometallurgy” (2008)

RICHARD BURKIN – PUBLISHED BOOKS 1. Burkin A.R., The Chemistry of Hydrometallurgical Processes. London: E. & F.N. Spon Ltd, 1966. 2. Burkin A.R.(Ed.), Leaching and Reduction in Hydrometallurgy. London; Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1975. 3. Burkin A.R. (Ed.), Topics in Non-ferrous Extractive Metallurgy. Oxford; Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1980 (Critical Reports on Applied Chemistry, vol.1.)  4. Burkin A.R. (Ed.), Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1987. (Critical Reports on Applied Chemistry, vol.17.)  5. Burkin A.R. (Ed.), Production of Aluminium and Alumina. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1987. (Critical Reports on Applied Chemistry, vol.20.)  6. Burkin A.R. Chemical Hydrometallurgy: Theory and Principles. London; Imperial College Press, 2001.

PATENTS (18) Burkin A.R. and Barry B.T.K., “Treatment of zircon.”, British Patent 853301, 1960. Burkin A.R. and Barry B.T.K. " Process for reducing the silica content of zircon.", United States Patent 2981594, 1961.  Burkin A.R., Meddings B. and Sawyer H.D., " Treatment of columbite and related minerals.“ United States Patent 3061407, 1962.   Burkin A.R. and Sawyer H.D. “Treatment of pyrochlore.”, Canadian Patent 667821, 1963. Burkin A.R. and Sawyer H.D.,“Recovery of niobium and tantalum from pyrochlore by roasting with alkalis.”, British Patent 960433, 1964. Burkin A.R., “Treatment of pyrochlore.”, United States Patent 3141766, 1964. Burkin A. R. and Grayson-Smith I. J., “Coating silicon nitride fibres with chromium by thermal decomposition of bis(arene)chromium 0 and arene-chromium carbonyl complexes in inert organic solvents.”, French Patent, 1,586,667, 1969

PATENTS (Continued) Burkin A. R. and Grayson-Smith I. J.,“Coating silicon nitride fibres with chromium by thermal decomposition of bis(arene)chromium 0 and arene-chromium carbonyl complexes in inert organic solvents.”, French Patent, 1,586,667. 1969. Burkin A.R., “Deposition of metal values.”, British Patent 1215574, 1970. Burkin A.R., “Production of metal powders and coatings.”, United States Patent 3532490, 1970. Burkin A. R. and Grayson-Smith I. J., “Improvements in or relating to metal coatings.”, British Patent, 1,249,624, 1971   Burkin A.R., “Deposition of copper.”, United States Patent 3844763, 1974.   Burkin A.R., “Deposition of copper values.”, Canadian Patent 949332, 1974. Dain R.J., Manning G.D. and Burkin A.R., “Extractants (Cyclophosphazenes and siloxanes).”, PCT Intl. Appln. 8000796, 1978  

PATENTS (Continued) Burkin A.R. and Chouzadjian K.A., “Process for the recovery of manganese from aqueous acidic solutions.”, European Patent 0001680, 1979. Ozensoy E. and Burkin A.R., " Separation of tungsten and molybdenum by solvent extraction.“ United States Patent, 4275039, 1980.   Burkin A.R. and Monhemius A.J., " Extraction of pre-reduced lateritic ores with aqueous sulphuric acid in the presence of peroxidant.", British Patent 1,600,411, 1981. Dain R.J., Manning G.D. and Burkin A.R., “Improvements relating to extractants.”, European Patent EP0020483, 1983.