Mineralogical factors affecting the extraction of gold in ...

There are several major factors that affect gold ore processing. Of which, gold grade, mineralogy and metallurgy are the three major ones. Technically, gold is commonly extracted from various ores using gravity, flotation, cyanidation or a combination of these processes. For refractory gold ore processing, pre-treatment technologies such as fine-grinding, autoclaving, roasting and bio ...

Gold recovery optimization of a refractory concentrate by ...

This laboratory work presents a study of the effect of ultrafine grinding on the gold recovery of a highly refractory gold concentrate. The particle size of the concentrate was P80 = 46 µm and the main species present were quartz (28.58%), dolomite (25.63%), pyrite (20.93%), arsenopyrite (15.39%) and 112 g/t gold. After optimizing hydrated lime and lead nitrate additions, standard cyanidation ...

Biooxidation of Carbonaceous Refractory Gold Ores by an ...

The ability of an iron-sulfur-oxidizing mixotrophic bacterium to treat two types of sulfide-rich carbonaceous refractory gold concentrates from Sulawesi and Sumatra in Indonesia was studied in comparison with an acidophilic chemolithotrophic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Over the course of the biooxidation experiments, the pH of the solution tended to rise (pH>5) due to the high ...

Emergent Treatment of Status Epilepticus — Johns Hopkins ...

abstract = "Status epilepticus is a neurologic emergency and can progress to refractory status epilepticus and super-refractory status epilepticus. Electroencephalography is the gold standard for diagnosis. There are many possible causes of status epilepticus, …

acid method for high cocentration of gold ore

Characterization of refractory behaviour of complex gold/silver ore ... methods currently practiced for refractory gold ores and ... In this study, high grade Akoluk (Ordu) refractory gold/silver ore was used. ... concentration of cyanide was maintained at 1.5 g/L over ...

Sleeping gold - FL

Sleeping gold. The race is on to discover a more economically viable means of extracting gold from refractory low-grade ores. FL's Rapid Oxidative Leach (ROL) process could unlock significant value in the gold space. Gold deposits are becoming increasingly complex to treat and grades continue to deteriorate in known reserves.

Comprehensive recovery of gold and base-metal sulfide ...

The comprehensive recovery of small amounts of valuable minerals such as gold and base-metal sulfide minerals from a low-grade refractory ore was investigated. The following treatment strategy was applied to a sample of this ore: gold flotation–gold concentrate leaching–lead and zinc flotation from the gold concentrate leaching residue. Closed-circuit trials of gold flotation yielded a ...

Biomining — biotechnologies for extracting and recovering ...

Although again developed initially for copper, bio-heaps have been adapted to process polymetallic ores (e.g. at the Talvivaara mine in Finland, where nickel is the primary target metal [18 •]) and also as a pretreatment for refractory gold (by the Newmont Mining Corporation [7, 19]).

Kinetics of leaching refractory gold ores by ... - Springer

12%The resources of refractory gold ores are abundant, and their effective treatment can bring good economic benefits. This paper investigated the kinetics of leaching gold from refractory gold ores by ultrasonic-assisted electro-chlorination. The effects of ultrasound time ratio, initial hydrochloric acid concentration and leaching temperature on the kinetic parameters were …

Smelting and Roasting Ores to recover gold, silver and ...

The process works best when the ore is crushed to small pieces before roasting. Additives, such as common rock salt are often added to the mix before it is heated to enhance the reaction of the sulfides. Once the ores are fully roasted, and the sulfur is driven off, the extraction of the gold or silver from the ore is not especially difficult.

Evaluation of Parameters in the Bio-Oxidation Process of ...

The mining districts located in the western mountain range in the south of Ecuador have gold minerals with refractory characteristics, which do not allow gold recovery by traditional methods used in Ecuador. Therefore, it is necessary to apply some technology that permits to obtain greater metal recovery. Bio-oxidation, as treatment of refractory ores that contain low grade of gold, offers an ...

C22B 11 - Obtaining noble metals - Patents Sitemap

CN103205571A Treatment process for high-carbon high-arsenic gold ores : 07/17/2013: CN103205567A Method for enriching gold and platinum group metal in process of …

GOLD RECOVERY OF REFRACTORY SULFIDE CONCENTRATES …

Recovery of gold increased gradually to its maximum value of 93.05% as the value of cyanide strength increased from 0.8 to 1.2% and the addition of sodium nitrite raise to 1.2 M. No improvement for further addition of nitrites. This introduction of new hydrometallurgical pre-treatment process has given more option for treating refractory ores.

How to roast gold bearing ore at home

Processing technologies for gold-telluride ores - Springer. Feb 12, 2010 ... Home · Contact Us ... Gold telluride ores are important gold refractory ores due to the presence of sulfides ... The results show that flotation procedures are much easier for gold tellurides compared to …

Biomining - Google Books

Biomining is the biotechnology that uses microorganisms to recover metals, in particular copper and gold, from ores and concentrates. Having developed from a very simple operational (in terms of both engineering and biology) process, biomining has developed into a multifaceted technology, to the extent that many of the largest industrial stirred tanks and heaps throughout the world are ...

Biooxidation‒thiosulfate leaching of refractory gold ...

A process of biooxidation followed by thiosulfate leaching of gold from refractory gold concentrate was investigated. Mineralogical studies on the concentrate showed that very fine gold grains (<10 μm) were encapsulated in pyrite and arsenopyrite, while the proportion of monomer gold was only 21%. The gold-bearing sample was identified as a high-sulfur fine-sized wrapped-type refractory gold ...

Technologies - Sherritt International - Home

Refractory Gold. Sherritt's process for treatment of refractory gold feed materials provides significantly increased gold recoveries while producing environmentally stable residues (particularly those with high arsenic), and is compatible with conventional cyanidation and other gold recovery processes. Learn more. Zinc Concentrates

New insights into the extraction of invisible gold in a ...

To extract gold from a low-grade (13.43 g/t) and high-sulfur (39.94wt% sulfide sulfur) Carlin-type gold concentrate from the Nibao deposit, Guizhou, a bio-pretreatment followed by carbon-in-pulp (CIP) cyanide leaching process was used. Various methods were used to detect the low-grade gold in the concentrate; however, only time-of-flight secondary-ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was successful.

Autoclaves in gold process

Alkaline and Acidic Autoclaving of Refractory Gold Ores - Springer roasting and autodaving (introduced to gold processing during the 1980s). In roasting and autoclaving, which are considered the most severe of t.he processes...

Review of gold extraction from ores - Murdoch University ...

Abstract. Australia is now an important gold producer in the world. The nature of Australian gold production is briefly reviewed and the hydrometallurgy of gold extraction is considered. The choice of processing routes for free milling, complex and refractory ores is discussed. For free milling ores, cyanidation and recovery by the Carbon-in ...

Characterisation of Biooxidation Feed and Products for ...

This paper presents a study on characterisation of refractory ore, biooxidation feed and product, and cyanidation tailings with the aim of understanding the causes of excessive continuous frothing, incomplete sulphide oxidation, high reagent consumption, high cyanidation residues and low overall recovery as encountered in biooxidation of refractory ores.

Outotec Acquires Bioleaching Technology | E & MJ

Outotec has agreed to acquire the majority of shares in Biomin South Africa Pty. Ltd. and certain assets from Biomin Technologies S.A. in Switzerland. With this acquisition, Outotec gets the full intellectual property and marketing rights of BIOX bioleaching technology, which is a proven method for the treatment of refractory gold ores.

Sulfide Minerals Bio-Oxidation of a Low-Grade Refractory ...

This paper describes the oxidative dissolution kinetics of sulfides with gold occlusion within pyrite and arsenopyrite. Shake flasks tests and column leaching of a low grade gold ore from China were carried out with domesticated mixed acidophiles isolated from acid mine drainage. Both test show that the main factors accelerating sulfide oxidation was mainly temperature and redox potential.

8th International Symposium on High-Temperature ... - Springer

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a member-driven international professional society dedicated to fostering the exchange of learning and ideas across the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production, to basic research and the advanced applications of materials.

A two-stage bacterial pretreatment process for double ...

For double refractory gold ores which contain sulfide minerals and organic carbonaceous matter, the stage in which to use coaldegrading microorganisms (Amankwah et al. 2005) for degradation of the ...

gold processing technology

Processing technologies for gold-telluride ores - Springer 1 Feb 2010 ... Gold telluride ores are important gold refractory ores due to the presence of sulfides and other gangue materials. The classification and main ...

(PDF) Gold Extraction and Recovery Processes For Internal ...

Initially, Jerritt Canyon was designed to process oxide and mildly refractory gold ores by conventional cyanidation using chlorine gas for pre-oxidation of the refractory ores. In 1989, the roasting circuit was added to the process for the treatment of highly refractory ores which are now being mined and processed at Jerritt Canyon.

Advances in Gold Ore Processing - Google Books

The gold processing industry is experiencing change. As free-milling and oxide ores become depleted, more complex polymetallic and refractory ores are being processed, coupled with increasing pressure for stricter environmental compliance. Recent years have also seen a steady reduction in mineral processing and metallurgy graduates and a gradual loss of older operating …

The Extractive Metallurgy of Gold | John C ... - Springer

The history of gold begins in antiquity. Bits of gold were found in Spanish caves that were used by Paleolithic people around 40,000 B.C. Gold is the "child of Zeus," wrote the Greek poet Pindar. The Romans called the yellow metal aurum ("shining dawn"). Gold is the first element and first metal

Treatment of Refractory Gold Ores | SpringerLink

12%Abstract. Problem ores that yield low (say less than 80%) gold recovery by cyanidation when "normally ground" are defined as refractory. The term, as well as the technical methods used to treat such ores, are relatively new. Rose and Newman's very comprehensive book, The Metallurgy of Gold, does not even contain the term refractory in its ...