CCD Continuous Counter-Current Decantation Cyanidation Flowsheet
PROCESS FLOWSHEET DESCRIPTION: Continuous counter-current decantation cyanidation flowsheet. ORE TREATED: Gold and silver ores amenable to the cyanidation process and where economics justify plant outlay. ADVANTAGES: By producing the precious metals in bullion form, the highest net return is realized on many gold and silver ores. Where the tonnage available for treatment justifies the capital […]
Gravity Gold with Amalgamation and Cyanide Leaching Extraction
PROCESS FLOWSHEET DESCRIPTION: Gold Mineral Jig in cyanide circuit with amalgamation of the Jig concentrates. ORE TREATED: Practically all ores treated by cyanidation and especially all ores containing coarse gold. ADVANTAGES: The Mineral Jig and Amalgamation Unit have a definite place in cyanide plants, as it has been found that the gold recovered by the Jig […]
Recovery of Mercury from Amalgamation Tailing
In this paper on the recovery of mercury as sulphide, from the residues from the amalgamation and cyanide treatment of high-grade ores and concentrates, I will not discuss the many reactions, chemical and otherwise, that take place in the general process, but confine myself more particularly to the methods of recovering the mercury. I submit […]
Amalgamation Of Gold Ores & Chloritizing Roasting
The following minerals could be plainly seen in the ore: magnetite, pyrites of iron, pyrites of copper, quartz, and garnet. Neither galena nor zinc-blende were visible, but the ore contained a trace of lead, and in some samples of ore from the Muertos mine, 1.19 per cent, of zinc was found. Antimony and arsenic were […]
Pan Amalgamation
These results obtained in experiments, proving that a low percentage of copper sulphate with a variable percentage of salt, depending on the ore, gives the best results, confirm practical mill-work. I have none of my notes, taken at the time, to refer to, so have to rely solely on memory, which precludes the conciseness that […]
Amalgamation Patio Process
The ores were composed principally of iron pyrites (much decomposed), in a quartz matrix, with native gold in very irregular grains. Some portions, however, carried their metallic value in a matrix of calcite and siderite. The mill in which the ores were treated consisted of two 800-lb. stamps, two amalgamating-plates, four pans, two automatic washers, […]
Flotation of Cyanide Leaching Tailing
DESCRIPTION: Flotation of cyanide tailing after a Merrill-Crowe gold recovery circuit. ORE TREATED: Where ore bodies at depth have become more refractory and flotation ahead of cvanidation would call for major and expensive mill alterations, the sulphide minerals containing the undissolved precious metals can be recovered by flotation and shipped to the smelter. In some […]
Flotation, Gravity and Tailings Cyanidation Leaching Circuit
DESCRIPTION: Flotation with cyanidation of flotation tailings. This flowsheet has a gravity gold recovery embedded into the grinding circuit’s ball mill discharge. ORE TREATED: Ores containing both oxide and sulphide minerals with gold or silver, or those with cyanicides which must he removed before cyanidation. ADVANTAGES: This flowsheet makes possible the milling in one plant […]
Flotation & Cyanidation Leaching of Concentrate
DESCRIPTION: Flotation followed by cyanidation of flotation concentrates. In this flowsheet the flotation concentrates produced are reground and treated by cyanidation leaching. ORE TREATED: Sulphide ores wherein base metal values are negligible (such as pyrite) but with good gold and silver values, or in cases where increased returns can be secured from the marketing of […]
Gold and Silver Metallurgy Technology
An ore may be treated experimentally with cyanide solution and 90 per cent, of the gold or silver dissolved. This may be quoted as an extraction of 90 per cent., but it is preferable not to do so, since it is, at best, only an experimental extraction; and by no parallel method of operation in […]