Effect of biooxidation conditions on cyanide consumption and gold recovery from a refractory gold concentrate

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-149

  Ciftci, H ^a   Akcil, A ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biooxidation; Cyanidation; Gold recovery; Jarosite; Mesophiles; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

BIO-OXIDATION; CYANIDATION; GOLD RECOVERY; JAROSITES; MESOPHILES; THERMOPHILES;

CYANIDES; GOLD; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RECOVERY; REDOX REACTIONS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77955850469     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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