The patent-protected flowsheet uses the same front-end as traditional cyanidation-based processing, but where cyanidation oxidises the gold to make gold cyanide, the Cycladex process leaches gold from ...

Refractory gold ores present significant challenges to conventional extraction methods. In these ores, gold is tightly encapsulated within sulphide minerals or locked by carbonaceous matter, thereby ...

Gravity recovery results were: 11 – 21% for Ag and 15 – 35% for Au. The 96 hour cyanidation leach time tests included the addition of 250 g/t lead nitrate. Approximately 120 kilograms of samples from ...

After a long and contentious public comment process, Desert Mineral Mining received a permit last spring to build a cyanide-leaching gold mill 20 miles east of Boise. Now the company has decided to ...