The primary leaching of gold in dumps or heaps with cyanide often suffers from low recoveries. The extended leaching time offered by multiple lifts or layers can improve recovery, however the final recovery is limited by the degree of liberation, mineralogical associations and slow diffusion rates of the residual gold in the heap.
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Higher gold recoveries were achieved with bromine (70%) than with cyanide (23%) when leaching gold encapsulated in sulfides; however, bromine consumption was high (>500 kg/t) owing to simultaneous ...
contrast, leaching finely ground ore with cyanide could recover more than 97% of the ore's gold value. Adopted quickly by industry, the new leaching process first saw widespread use in the Witwatersrand gold fields of South Africa in the late 1800's. Cyanide heap leaching is an outgrowth of these early methods of processing cyanide and gold ...
leach considerably slower in cyanide (Adams, 2000). As a result of cyanide soluble copper in the ore, cyanidation of gold‐copper ores results in high cyanide consumptions and difficulty in process control. The gold leaching reaction in cyanide solution follows these electrochemical half‐reactions:
Gold is recovered from its ores hydrometallurgically by the cyanide leach process. The gold reacts with cyanide according to reaction (Davidson and Sole, 2007): Au0 +2CN– + ½ H 2O + ¼ O2 → Au(CN)2 – + OH– (1) The gold ore after grinding to 80% –5 micrometers, is fed to leaching tanks in the form of slurry including 45% solid.
A sodium cyanide solution is commonly used to leach gold from ore. There are two types of leaching: Heap leaching: In the open, cyanide solution is sprayed over huge heaps of crushed ore spread atop giant collection pads. The cyanide …
Cite this article as: Chun-bao Sun, Xiao-liang Zhang, Jue Kou, and Yi Xing, A review of gold extraction using noncyanide lixiviants: Fundamentals, advancements, and challenges toward alkaline sulfur-containing leaching agents, Int. J. Miner.Metall.
ores and heap leaching of low-grade ores (Korte et al. 2000). The process to concentrate gold using cyanide was developed in Scotland in 1887 and was used almost immediately in the Witwatersrand gold fields of the Republic of South Africa. Heap leaching with cyanide was proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines
In order to ensure good leaching kinetics and high overall gold recovery, it is . always necessary to add more cyanide during leaching than will be consumed in the leaching process. This excess cyanide reports to the tailings as uncomplexed or free cyanide, and it is often possible to recycle a portion of this cyanide at minimal cost.
GlyCat™ is the application of Glycine with cyanide to mixed base metal and precious metal ores. The presence of copper minerals in with gold is known to lead to many challenges during the cyanidation of gold ores, such as high …
a group that improves gold leaching (galena). The role of metal-cyanide species in leaching gold from a copper concentrate has been studied recently (Rees and van Deventer, 1999). It was found that Cu(CN) 4 3-leaches gold. Various cyanidation studies demonstrated that a careful selection of leaching parameters is critical to the gold leaching ...
The presence of sulfide minerals has a negative effect on gold cyanidation through reducing the leaching agent, i.e., cyanide and oxygen, and …
the production of gold are based on the use of cyanide (Hilson, 2006). In this method a weak sodium cyanide solution (NaCN) of 100-500 ppm is used. Since the Baia Mare disaster in Romania in January 2000, the use of cyanide has been resisted. Germany passed a decree in 2002 prohibiting mines from using cyanide in leaching processes.
"Traditionally, leaching or separating gold and other precious metals from an ore deposit or e-waste materials requires the use of cyanide," Eksteen said. "Industrially, it is very expensive to detoxify cyanide, but it still does not eliminate the risks associated with transporting, handling and processing the chemical."
The well-documented toxicity and environmental concerns around the use of cyanide in the gold mining industry 12 has led to the adoption of the International Cyanide Management Code, a voluntary program intended to reduce the …
The chemistry of gold dissolution in alkaline cyanide solution has continually received attention and new rate equations expressing the gold leaching are still developed. The effect of leaching parameters on gold cyanidation is studied in this work in order to optimize the leaching process. A gold leaching model, based on
Cyanide in solution is combined with gold ore and leaches the metal to form a soluble cyanide gold complex. The gold is then typically adsorbed onto activated carbon for downstream recovery. The resulting barren solution, still containing cyanide but absent of gold, can then be recycled for reuse and leaching of new ore.
Leaching of an oxide gold ore with chloride/hypochlorite solutions ... lems of cyanide, there is a worldwide quest to find viable alternatives to cyanide. One of the alternatives is ... (2000) used chloride/hypochlorite solution to leach gold and silver from a …
prior to cyanide leaching (Thomas et al., 2000; Wickens et al., 2003). In the Jinya Carlin-type gold deposit in China, gold occurs mainly as submicroscopic gold in arsenopyrite and pyrite and is recovered by roasting a flotation concentrate followed by cyanidation (Wang et al., 1994). gold orEs and MinErals According to the mode of occurrence,
Highly toxic sodium cyanide (NaCN) is used by the international mining community to extract gold and other precious metals through milling of high-grade ores and heap leaching of low-grade ores (Korte et al. 2000). The process to concentrate gold using cyanide was developed in Scotland in 1887 and was used almost immediately in the Witwatersrand gold fields of the Republic of …
The chlorination leaching of gold, one of the non-cyanide methods, has the advantages of higher reaction rate, less pollution, simple process, and low cost compared with the cyanide leaching. In this work, the hydro-leaching method consisting of the pressure oxidn. pretreatment and chlorination leaching has conducted for the refractory gold ...
The use of cyanide in mining is however controversial, as spills have the potential to inundate an ecosystem with toxic levels of cyanide: recent cyanide-related disasters in the EU include Stava (Italy, 1985), Los Frailes (S pain, 1998) and Baia Borsa (R omania, 2000). The worst accident took place in 2000 at a gold mine in Baia
ores and heap leaching of low-grade ores (Korte et a1. 2000). The process to concentrate gold using cyanide was developed in Scotland in 1887 and was used almost immediately in the Witwatersrand gold fields of the Republic of South Africa. Heap leaching with cyanide was proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines
Leaching The gold leaching cells were made of glass and plastic, with a 10 litre capacity at room temperature. The tests were made with ore crushed carefully to -2000 microns at the pH of desired level. Then the cyanide and thiourea were added along with oxidizing agents. Number of parameters like concentration of reagent, pH, and oxidizing
The disaster in neighboring Romania that happened in 2000 at the Baia Mare site needs to be remembered. Then, 3.5 million cubic meters of cyanide-contaminated tailings from the local gold mine spilled into the Tisza and destroyed the ecosystem in 400 kilometers of the river's basin. Rosia Montana village is an example. One of the prominent ...
2.1 Cyanide leaching. Cyanide is a cheap but highly toxic reagent that is very effective in leaching gold from low-grade minerals and mining wastes. Therefore, cyanidation is the most widely used method for the extraction of gold from mining wastes. Despite its advantages, is considered an unacceptable and highly hazardous approach.
stirring was continued for 30 min. Gold leaching lasted 24.0 h with a concentration of 0.3% NaCN. The leaching residue was filtered and dried before measuring the gold grade. The leaching rate of gold (η) is calculated as follows29,36 η 1 θ β =− × i k jj jj y {zz zz (2) where η is the leaching rate of gold, β is the gold grade of
The introduction of oxygen and an online cyanide analyzer enhanced leaching kinetics and resulted in a 0.61% increase in gold recovery, from 95.20% in 1999 to 95.81% in 2000. Benefits of the use of oxygen were more pronounced in the hot summer months when higher slurry temperatures depleted DO content and pyrrhotite was more reactive.