Improvement of thiosulfate stability in gold leaching

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 68-72

  Xia, C ^a   Yen, W T ^a   Deschenes, G ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gold leaching; Refractory gold ores; Thiosulfate

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; CHELATION; COPPER; DECOMPOSITION; GOLD; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PH;

AMMONIUM THIOSULFATE; COPPER SULFATE ADDITION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GOLD LEACHING; REAGENT;

LEACHING;

EID: 0038445513     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403135     Document Type: Article

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