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Started by mashudu
our final gold bullion contains about 19% of copper whist gold fines is 65%. i would like to ask as to what flux composition can we use to reduce such high copper in the final bullion .
our final gold bullion contains about 19% of copper whist gold fines is 65%. i would like to ask as to what flux composition can we use to reduce such high copper in the final bullion .
Last replied to by Paul Morrow
https://www.911metallurgist.com/effect-base-metals-gold-bullion-assaying/#How_does_Copper_Affect_Gold_Assays
https://www.911metallurgist.com/effect-base-metals-gold-bullion-assaying/#How_does_Copper_Affect_Gold_Assays
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Started by COPM Kisadag
It has long been known that using galvanized metal in cyanide circuits should be avoided due to the tendency of the zinc to dissolve and precipitate gold. I am looking for links to articles on the subject that can be used to educate tradespersons an...
It has long been known that using galvanized metal in cyanide circuits should be avoided due to the tendency of the zinc to dissolve and precipitate gold. I am looking for links to articles on the subject that can be used to educate tradespersons an...
Last commented on by COPM Kisadag
Thanks Jorge.
Thanks Jorge.
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Started by ely.thar
When leaching coal fly ash using sulfuric acid, is it possible to leach iron instead of REE elements, if so how can we selectively leach the REE instead of the iron elements?
When leaching coal fly ash using sulfuric acid, is it possible to leach iron instead of REE elements, if so how can we selectively leach the REE instead of the iron elements?
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Started by biteyaboy
I want to leach concentrate that has been upgraded by shacking table and mercury has been used to extract gold in the same Conc. I have this concentrate now i want to leach them in Acacia plant with Leach Aid, NaCN and maintain PH of 12. Then after s...
I want to leach concentrate that has been upgraded by shacking table and mercury has been used to extract gold in the same Conc. I have this concentrate now i want to leach them in Acacia plant with Leach Aid, NaCN and maintain PH of 12. Then after s...
Last replied to by David
Hi, see https://www.911metallurgist.com/hydrometallurgy/leaching-of-gold-ore-containing-mercury/
Hi, see https://www.911metallurgist.com/hydrometallurgy/leaching-of-gold-ore-containing-mercury/
Hydrometallurgy: Leaching in Heap, Vat, CIL, CIP, Merrill–Crowe, SX Solvent Extractionhttps://www.911metallur...
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Started by omer.canieren
I'm a Phd student at mineral processing department. And I'm trying to find a new topic on encountered problems in gold extraction process. Did anyone of you advice me? What is the biggest problem in this regard? Thank you for your interest. Rega...
I'm a Phd student at mineral processing department. And I'm trying to find a new topic on encountered problems in gold extraction process. Did anyone of you advice me? What is the biggest problem in this regard? Thank you for your interest. Rega...
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Started by omer.canieren
Hello everyone, Did anyone of you use the chloride as solvent in order to extract gold from the oxide and sulphide bearing gold minerals? Thanks for your intrest. Regards.
Hello everyone, Did anyone of you use the chloride as solvent in order to extract gold from the oxide and sulphide bearing gold minerals? Thanks for your intrest. Regards.
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Started by Louise
I just want to ask on how to calculate the harvest time of carbon in cyanide leaching. Its the time that the carbon will reach 1500 grams/tonne? The carbon loading is linear. Thank you for answering 🙂
I just want to ask on how to calculate the harvest time of carbon in cyanide leaching. Its the time that the carbon will reach 1500 grams/tonne? The carbon loading is linear. Thank you for answering 🙂
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Started by kudzisa
Which ion exchange resin is the best for processing gold rich solution from a heap leaching process of oxide rich Banded Iron Formation.
Which ion exchange resin is the best for processing gold rich solution from a heap leaching process of oxide rich Banded Iron Formation.
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Started by Rob.Earth.20
Hello,I tried to make thermite reaction with crushed manganese oxide ore, so the manganese oxide could become a pure manganese without oxide. I want to ask if I could separate the pure manganese from the aluminium? Can I dissolving the aluminium oxid...
Hello,I tried to make thermite reaction with crushed manganese oxide ore, so the manganese oxide could become a pure manganese without oxide. I want to ask if I could separate the pure manganese from the aluminium? Can I dissolving the aluminium oxid...
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Started by Irene Ibz
Hello, I work in a plant where there are a lot of carbon losses of about 7 to 9 tonnes per month.. Now I have been given a project to minimize the carbon losses and of course I know carbon is lost due to attrition losses in the agitators, kiln, due ...
Hello, I work in a plant where there are a lot of carbon losses of about 7 to 9 tonnes per month.. Now I have been given a project to minimize the carbon losses and of course I know carbon is lost due to attrition losses in the agitators, kiln, due ...
Last replied to by SIMetallurgist
Hi Irene, Some more things to try, attach a 20 mesh screen to a sampler and dip it in the launder of your last CIP or CIL discharge going to tails. This will show if you have carbon losses coming out...
Hi Irene, Some more things to try, attach a 20 mesh screen to a sampler and dip it in the launder of your last CIP or CIL discharge going to tails. This will show if you have carbon losses coming out...
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Started by nyala89
I hope somebody on the group can help me. I'm looking for learning material in carbon management. I'm developing a course in carbon especially carbon in pulp and carbon in leach. i'm in need for assessments as well as learner guides. Please if so...
I hope somebody on the group can help me. I'm looking for learning material in carbon management. I'm developing a course in carbon especially carbon in pulp and carbon in leach. i'm in need for assessments as well as learner guides. Please if so...
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Started by nicolas
hello, i operate a gravity vat leach plant, i treat tailings from artisanal workers after recovery of free gold. I got twelve 30 tons tanks. As tails are argillaceous, i melt 15kg/ton cement to pelletize the tails . What flow rate do i need in tank ...
hello, i operate a gravity vat leach plant, i treat tailings from artisanal workers after recovery of free gold. I got twelve 30 tons tanks. As tails are argillaceous, i melt 15kg/ton cement to pelletize the tails . What flow rate do i need in tank ...
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Started by Fabian Rebolledo
i would like to know if someone knows about technologies that can measure the organic entrainment in copper solvent extraction without lab tests.
i would like to know if someone knows about technologies that can measure the organic entrainment in copper solvent extraction without lab tests.
Last replied to by David
Typically two ways, most common is a dairy centrifuge tester see link of typical unit; https://www.indiamart.com/dairy-instruments/# Also used in a Horiba IR tester that uses infrared and special so...
Typically two ways, most common is a dairy centrifuge tester see link of typical unit; https://www.indiamart.com/dairy-instruments/# Also used in a Horiba IR tester that uses infrared and special so...
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Started by Mahmoud Abdelmonem
Hello I have never work in gold processing. I'm trying to understand how the circuit of the CIL process goes and the flow of ore and cyanide and carbon in it , but still somethings confused in tank design. Suppose there are 4 tanks . The ore ent...
Hello I have never work in gold processing. I'm trying to understand how the circuit of the CIL process goes and the flow of ore and cyanide and carbon in it , but still somethings confused in tank design. Suppose there are 4 tanks . The ore ent...
Last replied to by Ashraf Ali
Dear mr Mohamed I have same project and I face some problem , can we discus this issue if you want can chat WhatsApp 00966535646526
Dear mr Mohamed I have same project and I face some problem , can we discus this issue if you want can chat WhatsApp 00966535646526
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Started by Sandeep Bisht
Over a week and a half, the dissolved oxygen content of my flotation concentrate carbon-in-leach tank drops by 80% to around 5 ppm. My gold recovery is still OK at almost 90%. This is a batch/Vat setup. What could explain the oxygen being consu...
Over a week and a half, the dissolved oxygen content of my flotation concentrate carbon-in-leach tank drops by 80% to around 5 ppm. My gold recovery is still OK at almost 90%. This is a batch/Vat setup. What could explain the oxygen being consu...
Last replied to by Charlie
Hi Sandeep, I saw something similar discussed elsewhere and here is what they say: Susan (Sue) Ritz This sounds like a mechanical problem to me. Do you inject directly into the tank or do you have a...
Hi Sandeep, I saw something similar discussed elsewhere and here is what they say: Susan (Sue) Ritz This sounds like a mechanical problem to me. Do you inject directly into the tank or do you have a...
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Started by SDHILLBILLY
I have been experimenting with direct smelting and sulfuric acid leaching/electrowinning of oxide copper/silver ores on my property. My great grand father used direct smelt 150 tons per day. I Would like to setup a pilot process of 4 to 8 tons per da...
I have been experimenting with direct smelting and sulfuric acid leaching/electrowinning of oxide copper/silver ores on my property. My great grand father used direct smelt 150 tons per day. I Would like to setup a pilot process of 4 to 8 tons per da...
Last replied to by David
Some processing ideas: https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/heap-leaching see the last 3 PDFs at bottom https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/agitated-copper-leaching-ore https://www.911metallurgist...
Some processing ideas: https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/heap-leaching see the last 3 PDFs at bottom https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/agitated-copper-leaching-ore https://www.911metallurgist...
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Started by Mikhail
Hello colleagues!Anyone can suggest a method of laboratory research of ores before heap leaching? I am interested in the method of determining the height of the heap. I saw a device that allows you to simulate a column of ore height of 9-12 meters. S...
Hello colleagues!Anyone can suggest a method of laboratory research of ores before heap leaching? I am interested in the method of determining the height of the heap. I saw a device that allows you to simulate a column of ore height of 9-12 meters. S...
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Started by Charlie
We have a heap that we are planning to leach. The heap contains silver bearing ore. The pH of the heap is at pH 3. we want to raise the pH to 11 before we start to add cyanide to leach the silver. What is the best possible chemical to use?
We have a heap that we are planning to leach. The heap contains silver bearing ore. The pH of the heap is at pH 3. we want to raise the pH to 11 before we start to add cyanide to leach the silver. What is the best possible chemical to use?
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Started by Irene Ibz
Hello, apart from arranging regular screen maintenance, how can I check for interstage screen leakage manually during the shift?
Hello, apart from arranging regular screen maintenance, how can I check for interstage screen leakage manually during the shift?
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Started by Rob.Earth.20
Can I make a Copper Sulfate solution with this unknown copper ore and sulfuric acid without using a burner or roasting? How? Can I just using a crushing and just directly dissolving the copper using the sulfuric acid? Thanks
Can I make a Copper Sulfate solution with this unknown copper ore and sulfuric acid without using a burner or roasting? How? Can I just using a crushing and just directly dissolving the copper using the sulfuric acid? Thanks
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Started by Wadzanayi
I would like to know how I can modify the cyanidation process to leach a gold ore which has got the following characteristics: Au grade 3-4 g/t Hg grade 1-2.5 g/t Cu, As,Sb grades: trace FeS: trace The ore has produced unsatisfactory r...
I would like to know how I can modify the cyanidation process to leach a gold ore which has got the following characteristics: Au grade 3-4 g/t Hg grade 1-2.5 g/t Cu, As,Sb grades: trace FeS: trace The ore has produced unsatisfactory r...
Last replied to by Auexplorer
I am curious, Please excuse my question, Why the amalgamation circuit when grinding to 75 micron, seems like an extra circuit. Any free_mill material would be caught in the grinding and classification...
I am curious, Please excuse my question, Why the amalgamation circuit when grinding to 75 micron, seems like an extra circuit. Any free_mill material would be caught in the grinding and classification...
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Started by Colin
We are in the process of building a VAT Leaching plant and I have just received the 32 element test from SGS with a breakdown of the elements. The As and S content look a little high so I was wondering if I need to pre treat the tailings before loadi...
We are in the process of building a VAT Leaching plant and I have just received the 32 element test from SGS with a breakdown of the elements. The As and S content look a little high so I was wondering if I need to pre treat the tailings before loadi...
Last replied to by David
Colin, the 0.7% Arsenic you have may be enough of a leachability roadblock but it does not confirm it 'the problem'. The Influence of Arsenic in the Cyanidation of Gold Ores is explained by W. B. B...
Colin, the 0.7% Arsenic you have may be enough of a leachability roadblock but it does not confirm it 'the problem'. The Influence of Arsenic in the Cyanidation of Gold Ores is explained by W. B. B...
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Started by Parmanand
I want to recover gold and iridium from element with below combination. CU - 63% Ir - 17.61% Ag - 16.20% Au - 3.04% Nickel - 0.13% Mercury (Hg) - 0.002%
I want to recover gold and iridium from element with below combination. CU - 63% Ir - 17.61% Ag - 16.20% Au - 3.04% Nickel - 0.13% Mercury (Hg) - 0.002%
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Started by Ozgun
In HPAL (High Pressure Acid Leaching) of nickel, pressure leaching is used to be done in pachuka tanks but it has become obsolete and instead of pachuka tanks, titanium lined autoclaves are being used. From a technical point of view how can tit...
In HPAL (High Pressure Acid Leaching) of nickel, pressure leaching is used to be done in pachuka tanks but it has become obsolete and instead of pachuka tanks, titanium lined autoclaves are being used. From a technical point of view how can tit...
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Started by vekian
I have years of hands-on experience on various CIL/CIP plants but the one I am currently at have an almost manual process of when a carbon pull has finished from the 1st carbon tank (usually about midnight), to straight away transfer carbon from the ...
I have years of hands-on experience on various CIL/CIP plants but the one I am currently at have an almost manual process of when a carbon pull has finished from the 1st carbon tank (usually about midnight), to straight away transfer carbon from the ...
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Started by Irene Ibz
hello, In our plant there are carbon which were dumped back then, they are known as reject carbon. These reject carbon consist of grits. In order to save the cost we have decided to reuse these carbon in which their activity is about 12% and they ha...
hello, In our plant there are carbon which were dumped back then, they are known as reject carbon. These reject carbon consist of grits. In order to save the cost we have decided to reuse these carbon in which their activity is about 12% and they ha...
Last replied to by Vault Dweller
Another option for separation could be; if you already have a Gemini or Wilfley table set up, or access to one, you could possibly split the carbon out. Or if you could rig an old cyclone up with the...
Another option for separation could be; if you already have a Gemini or Wilfley table set up, or access to one, you could possibly split the carbon out. Or if you could rig an old cyclone up with the...
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Started by Irene Ibz
hello, I have been given a project on carbon inventory and carbon activity improvement. Currently in our plant we are getting a huge change in carbon inventory in CIL circuit during opening and closing stock. Also the activity of carbon is lowering....
hello, I have been given a project on carbon inventory and carbon activity improvement. Currently in our plant we are getting a huge change in carbon inventory in CIL circuit during opening and closing stock. Also the activity of carbon is lowering....
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Started by Jaime Jacob
Hi my name is Jaime I'm trying to Learn modelling. I would like to model the moving the solution leach in heap leaching and may be the metal extraction. I have seen many of this studies of modelling in differente journals but only show some equatio...
Hi my name is Jaime I'm trying to Learn modelling. I would like to model the moving the solution leach in heap leaching and may be the metal extraction. I have seen many of this studies of modelling in differente journals but only show some equatio...
Last commented on by David
READ https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/heap-leaching and its +200 pages of PDF.
READ https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/heap-leaching and its +200 pages of PDF.
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Started by kahonde
hello i'm using vat leaching but im having a problem with the carbon absorptivity, usually we would get 1 kg recovery but these days we are only achieving atleast 500g. i have tried to use surf in hope to get some improvement, i'm yet to check the r...
hello i'm using vat leaching but im having a problem with the carbon absorptivity, usually we would get 1 kg recovery but these days we are only achieving atleast 500g. i have tried to use surf in hope to get some improvement, i'm yet to check the r...
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Started by Dan88
Good day, I am trying to figure out the optimal flow rate for a large tank. I am used to 30 ton VAT tanks but have since started using a 150 ton VAT tank. I know that with a 30 ton tank the flow rate is around 5 l/min but if i use the same flow rat...
Good day, I am trying to figure out the optimal flow rate for a large tank. I am used to 30 ton VAT tanks but have since started using a 150 ton VAT tank. I know that with a 30 ton tank the flow rate is around 5 l/min but if i use the same flow rat...
Last replied to by kahonde
0.1% is the ideal but if you leaching high grade ores you might need to use 0.18-0.2%
0.1% is the ideal but if you leaching high grade ores you might need to use 0.18-0.2%
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Started by Biglizer
Hello everyone Is vat leaching the best method to extract high grade gold with coarser particle, if not why? What is the best method of extraction besides mercury amalgamation Thanks
Hello everyone Is vat leaching the best method to extract high grade gold with coarser particle, if not why? What is the best method of extraction besides mercury amalgamation Thanks
Last replied to by max skinner
You will need to get the course gold out first, like anything larger than about 100 mesh. Course gold just doe's not leach well, very slow. As ace says above you can use Knelson or Falcon concentrator...
You will need to get the course gold out first, like anything larger than about 100 mesh. Course gold just doe's not leach well, very slow. As ace says above you can use Knelson or Falcon concentrator...
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Started by Adelnini
Clay from ROM is 10%, and it contains 0.05% copper.. What should we do to clay before feeding to SABC? Can we still recover Cu from clay?
Clay from ROM is 10%, and it contains 0.05% copper.. What should we do to clay before feeding to SABC? Can we still recover Cu from clay?
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0.05% copper = What does it matter THAT IS NOT ORE. On an industrial scale, clay is there to stay. 10% is bad news. What are you doing: Leaching gold or floating copper/copper-gold? Can you clarify......
0.05% copper = What does it matter THAT IS NOT ORE. On an industrial scale, clay is there to stay. 10% is bad news. What are you doing: Leaching gold or floating copper/copper-gold? Can you clarify......
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