On that matter, elemental sulfur and sulfides have been described as the most deleterious sulfur species during cyanide leaching. Sulfide minerals are known to cause the following effects: (1 ...
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Most of the gold in the roasting slag is recovered by thiourea/cyanide leaching process, however, the leaching residues (gold tailings) obtained from thiourea leaching process or the sodium cyanide leaching still contain 9–16 g/t gold, which is difficult to recover and is usually discarded with the leaching residues; This phenomenon is common ...
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72 Noble Metals solution of NaCN of 0.01% - 0.5% for ores, and for concentrates rich in gold and silver of 0.5 % -5 % (Parga et al., 2007). Details of this electrochemical reaction have received
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Salt Lake City, Utah have reported on mercury precipitation from gold cyanide leach solutions with caS and Na2S. They found that Na2S and CaS can serve as ... Electrochemical phase diagram for the mercury-sulfur-water system at 25°C. (Total dissolved sulfur = 8.6x1O-5 M, total dissolved mercury = 4.3x1O-5M)
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Processing of gold ores with high sulfide minerals is problematic as they consume cyanide and reduce gold leaching. Optimization of gold leaching and cyanide consumption requires a...
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This study uses sulfuric acid activation-water leaching method to decompose and leach iron from roasted cyanide tailings, thereby creating favorable conditions for the further leaching of gold from the tailings. The leachate obtained from the decomposition of iron is purified and then prepared into liquid polyferric sulfate. The gold in the leaching residue after iron …
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The effect of galvanic interactions and sulfide mineral dissolution on the gold leaching kinetics in aerated cyanide solutions is investigated. Gold leaching kinetics were measured using a rotating electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (REQCM), which measures the leaching rates in-situ. When the mineral is electrically in contact with gold, the …
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The gold-containing sulfur concentrate is concentrated and decontaminated by a thickener and a filter, and is subjected to two-stage grinding to 98% -0.044 mm, and then carried out continuous cyanidation leaching in …
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The main merits of cyanidation are the high selectivity of free cyanide for gold dissolution compared to other metals and an extremely high stability constant (2 × 10 38) of the gold cyanide complex [].. Dilute sodium cyanide solutions within concentration ranges of 0.01–0.05% are used in mines for gold leaching [].Gold ore is subjected to physical processes …
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from a solution containing 0.02M potassium dicyanoaurate, 0.23M potassium cyanide, 0.086M potassium carbonate. The gold/silver alloy was prepared by the same procedure, with the exception that 0.5mM silver ... Kinetic plot showing the mass of the electrode during the leaching of gold/silver in a caustic sulfur solution at 60°C. Also shown is ...
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The production of sulfur dioxide (SO 2) gas, ... middlings and tailings are transferred to cyanide leaching ... Insufficient nutrients can hinder microbial activity and limit gold extraction rates. Luria-Bertani (LB) and yeast peptone (YP) media are typically employed for growing cyanogenic bacteria. The LB medium contains 10 g/L of tryptone, 5 ...
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the gold [2,3,4]. From the advent of the cyanide leaching process in 1880, the carbonaceous material ... Method Code - CSA03V,limits of detection - 0.01%. Sulphur analysis: Method Code - CSA08V, Method - Various, limits of detection - 0.01%. ... The process of leaching gold from its host minerals by cyanidation is widely used in the minerals
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Download Citation | Remediation of reduced sulfur species effects on gold and silver recovery during cyanide leaching | Cyanidation circuits that treat sulfidic ores may contain one or more of the ...
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The gold-containing sulfur concentrate is leached by a agitation leaching system. The gold-containing sulfur concentrate is concentrated and decontaminated by a thickener and a filter, and is subjected to two-stage grinding to 98% -0.044 mm, and then carried out continuous cyanidation leaching in four mechanical agitation leaching tanks (φ3500 ...
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Currently, the cyanide method is used for gold production in the world's 60 largest gold-producing areas and 23 renowned gold companies, accounting for > 84% of their total output. 1 Despite its simplicity, high recovery rate, and low cost, the cyanide process produces significant amounts of hazardous solid waste known as cyanide tailings. Given the gold ore …
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limitations are found to affect the rate of sulphide oxidation and the volume of materials that can be treated for gold leaching. ... which generally limits the oxidative gold dissolution rates (Mpinga et al., 2015 ... ores is the destabilisation of gold cyanide complex by sulphur metastable species such as hydrosulphide, polysulphide ...
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This paper proposes a robust methodology to estimate leaching cyanide consumption due to oxidation and reactions with gold, chalcopyrite and pyrite minerals forming various cyanide complexes,...
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Here is a list of methods to help you on how to manage gold leaching when cyanide consumers are present. Recovering Gold from Iron Sulphides While the oxidized iron minerals …
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The high solubility obviously poses a problem in cyanidation, as copper cyanide complexes consume free cyanide and reduce the gold leaching rate. In addition, the presence …
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The sulfur allotropes forming on the gold surface also passivate the gold surface and limit the access of the lixiviants required for the gold leaching process. ... of dissolved gold cyanide and ...
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It has been shown that soluble sulfide hinders the rate of gold leaching, forming a protective layer of the type Au/Sx. Electrochemical studies of the constituent half reactions: gold...
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The substitutes for cyanide can be classified as traditional and novel non-cyanide gold leaching reagents. The traditional alternatives mainly include thiourea, halide, polysulfide, thiocyanate, lime sulfur synthetic solution (LSSS), and thiosulfate (Hilson and Monhemius, 2006, Sun et al., 2020, Xing et al., 2019).Although considerable investigations into gold extraction …
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has set limits of 200 ppb and 50 ppb cyanide in drinking water and for aquatic-biota, respectively (Gurbuz et al., 2004). The US health service has proposed a maximum permitted limit for cyanide in effluent of …
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However, at 40 mM cyanide, gold leaching is slow for an initial period but then proceeds to leach at a much more rapid rate. It would thus appear that under some experimental conditions, the sulfur can be removed from the gold surface; most likely as SCN-, as shown in Eq 5. ... In a similar manner to the results shown in Figure 6, the leaching ...
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It would only be necessary to add an excess of cyanide to the beginning of the carbon adsorption circuit in order to limit adsorption of divalent copper-cyanide species to the carbon surface. In well oxygenated solutions, all the cyanide that is not lost to hydrolysis, oxidation or reaction with sulphur could be used indirectly for gold ...
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Cyanide Recoverable gold Average gold and silver extraction reported in test work for both Ore A and B are illustrated in Figure 3. Direct cyanidation of Ore A yielded poor gold extractions in the mid twenty percentile for ore ground to a P 80 of 53 micrometres. Some test work investigated cyanidation of tails but the grade of the
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In the following a brief description of used leaching reagents takes place 8-11. Cyanide and Alternative Gold Leaching Reagents The most commonly used cyanide salts are KCN and NaCN, which are easily soluble in water. Cyanide leaching is the dominating process for gold recovery from primary resources, due to its simplicity and high cost efficiency.
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One of the main unit operations in metallurgical processing plant designs is gold leaching. The traditional cyanidation process was chosen and is currently in widespread use. However, the mining ...
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Leaching process of gold. 3. Methodology In this study, cyanide had been used as a leaching reagent for gold leaching process. The feed composition used in the HSC simulation was ores (Au) = 0.15 kg/hr, O2 = 113.45 kg/hr, CN- = 2.9117kg/hr, OH- = 0.9519 kg/hr, Na+ = 4.0397 kg/hr and H2O = 55994 kg/hr from literature. The gold cyanidation leaching
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The cyanidation results showed that the cyanide gold leaching rate of acid leaching residues was close to 100wt%. However, the maximum cyanide gold leaching rate of gold calcine was only 85.31wt%.
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Complex refractory gold ores, which have become a major raw material for global gold production (Bas et al., 2017), generally contain gold, silver, copper, sulfur and other valuable elements.The complex properties, many cyanide-consuming substances (Deschenes et al., 2000), and gold particles of fine size range (Bas et al., 2018) lead to poor conventional …
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of circulating fluidized-bed roasting to treat refractory sulfide ores with 1.2 g/t Au. The treatment capacity was 575 t/d and gold recovery was 80 to 85% [6].
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The formation of a monolayer of sulfur on gold in alkaline non-cyanide solutions has also been noted by others (Briceno and Chandler, 1990, ... It has been shown that gold leaching in cyanide solutions is severely hindered by the presence of chalcocite due to the high solubility of this mineral in cyanide solutions. The gold leaching rate in ...
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Orpiment was detrimental to gold leaching, the retardation becoming more pronounced as pH increased. The extractions in 48 hours at pH 10, 11, and 12 were 73, 44, and 19%, respectively, as compared with over 95% in the case of the control tests. ... the realgar 0.0035%, and the stibnite 0.007% total sulphide sulphur. Multiple cyanidation tests ...
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Alkaline sulfur-containing lixiviants, including thiosulfate, polysulfides, and alkaline sulfide solutions, stand out as a promising class of alternatives to cyanide because of their low toxicity, high efficiency, and strong adaptability. In this paper, we summarized the research progress and remaining challenges in gold extraction using these noncyanide reagents. After a …
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Using highly hazardous chemicals impedes leaching and poses a significant risk to human health and the ecosystem [19].In addition, the presence of impurity metals in RGO, such as copper, zinc, and nickel, increases the need for oxidants and cyanide, which forms a coating on the gold surface, impedes the leaching, and reducing the rate of gold recovery [19, 20].
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In the present paper, the alkaline sulfide system was studied as an alternative to cyanide for recovering gold from elemental sulfur. It was found that the dominant lixiviant for gold in this …
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The effect of temperature in the range of 20–65 °C on gold extraction from refractory gold tailings containing pyrite in 20% (v/v) of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulphate [Bmim + HSO 4 −]-water solution with thiourea as complexing agent and iron(III) sulphate oxidant, at pH of 1 was examined for 12 h leaching time intervals.The experimental results revealed …
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