The mechanism of gold lock-up in refractory wood chips

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1259-1267

  Petersen, F W ^a   Van Der Plas, P J ^a   Van Zyl, C J ^a  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Cyanidation; Gold ores

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORBENTS; ADSORPTION; CYANIDES; GOLD; IMPREGNATION; IONIC STRENGTH; LEACHING; PH EFFECTS; SLURRIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WOOD;

AUROCYANIDE; CYANIDATION; ELUTION; REFRACTORY WOOD CHIPS;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 0031275440     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-6875(97)00112-x     Document Type: Article

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