Pressure chloride leaching of a refractory gold ore

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 547-556

  Pangum, L S ^a   Browner, R E ^b  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Papua New Guinea)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leaching; Oxidation; Precious metal ores; Sulphide ores

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CYANIDES; DISSOLUTION; GOLD; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); LEACHING; METAL RECOVERY; METALLURGY; OXIDATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SULFIDE MINERALS;

CYANIDATION; GOLD ORE; PRESSURE CHLORIDE LEACHING; PYRITE MATRIX;

ORES;

EID: 0030151098     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0892-6875(96)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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