Answer: Cyanide leaching has been the industry standard for gold processing for more than 100 years. During the cyanide leach process, a cyanide solution, or lixiviant, is percolated through ore contained in vats, columns or heaps. Gold is dissolved by the cyanide and then removed from the heap or columns.
Gold cyanidation is a hydrometallurgical technique for extracting gold from low-grade ore by converting the gold to a water-soluble coordination complex. It is the most commonly used leaching process for gold extraction.
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Cyanide leaching has been the industry standard for gold processing for more than 100 years. During the cyanide leach process, a cyanide solution, or lixiviant, is percolated through ore contained in vats, columns or heaps. Gold is dissolved by the cyanide and then removed from the heap or columns. It is then extracted from the pregnant leach solution by adsorption on carbon or resins. This cost-effective, proven method of ore extraction provides maximum recovery for many gold ores, including low grade and some refractory ores.
SGS professionals develop your cyanide leach flowsheet at the bench or laboratory scale using cyanide bottle roll tests to assess leach parameters and optimise the gold recovery. During these tests, aeration, alkalinity, agitation time and grain size are strictly controlled and the resulting data provides an accurate estimate of the gold recovery and rates of acid consumption. Such tests set the parameters for your pilot plant or final site recoveries.
SGS professionals use the results gained from bottle rolls to establish the most appropriate preparation and recovery procedures for your ore. Cyanide leaching processes include: