Destruction of cyanide by hydrogen peroxide in tailings slurries from low bearing sulphidic gold ores

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-362

  Kitis, M ^a   Akcil, A ^a   Karakaya, E ^a   Yigit, N O ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environmental; Gold ores; Oxidation; Reaction kinetics; Tailings

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; COMPLEXATION; CYANIDES; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROLYSIS; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; REACTION KINETICS; SLURRIES;

CYANIDE DESTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL; GOLD ORES; WEAK ACID DISSOCIABLE (WAD);

ORE TAILINGS;

EID: 13444257822     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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