Kinetics and mechanism of leaching synthetic calaverite in cyanide solutions

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 133-138

  Deschenes G ^a   Pratt, A ^a   Fulton, M ^a   Guo, H ^a  

^a NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calverite; Cyanide leaching; Gold telluride; Leaching kinetics

Indexed keywords

CYANIDES; DISSOLUTION; LEACHING; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE REACTIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CALAVERITE; GOLD TELLURIDE; LEACHING KINETICS;

TELLURIUM DEPOSITS;

EID: 33748271705     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403200     Document Type: Article

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