Activated Carbon Process For Small Gold Operations

Activated Carbon Process For Small Gold Operations

There are small miners that many times can not finance a cyanidation plant, and this is the main factor that stops and brakes the development of a project in all its aspects. It is common in some places that ores with grades higher than 10 g/t gold use to be treated by heap leaching process which requires a low investment but has a low metallurgical performance and bad economic efficiency.

Even if this is method is inferior in economic and metallurgical performance. There is an alternative to the treatment: employing a carbon-in-leach process (CIL) because the investment could be similar but the economic and metallurgical performance is superior without any doubt.

2. CYANIDATION PROCESSES USED IN SMALL OPERATIONS.

A small operation with grades higher than 10 g/t gold can treat their ore for two cyanidation processes: heap leaching and cyanidation by agitation

Heap leaching

Cyanidation by agitation

COMPARING Gold HEAP LEACHING VS CIP Operating and Capital COSTS

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