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The prospects for an alternative gold leach reagent: Thiourea
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2000-10-18
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Orgul, S
Atalay, U
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Gold has been traditionally extracted from ores by leaching with an alkaline cyanide solution. However, certain characteristics and drawbacks of cyanidation process have stimulated research into alternative processes. A number of non-cyanide reagents have been tried for the dissolution of gold. Among them, thiourea leaching seems to be a promising process. This study was carried out on a finely disseminated Kaymaz gold ore (4 g/t Au). The effect of various leaching parameters such as concentration of thiourea, concentration of ferric sulphate, molar ratio of ferric sulphate/ thiourea, leaching duration, temperature and pulp density are studied. The investigations indicated that at room temperature with 16.04 kg/ton consumption of thiourea at pH of 1.35, it was possible to obtain a gold extraction of 85.8 % for the particle size of 80 % passing 53 micron feed in 6 hours. Staged addition of chemical reagents, pretreatment of ore by acid washing and microwave heating were also tested in accordance with lowering the thiourea consumption.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64379
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8th International Mineral Processing Symposium (IMPS-2000)
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S. Orgul and U. Atalay, “The prospects for an alternative gold leach reagent: Thiourea,” ANTALYA, TURKEY, 2000, p. 505, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64379.
