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Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations, Second Edition, brings together all the technical aspects relevant to modern gold ore processing, offering a practical perspective that is vital to the successful and responsible development, operation, and closure of any gold ore .

Bacterial Leaching as a Pre-treatment Step for Gold Recovery from Refractory Ores Article (PDF Available) in Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 32:173-181 · March 1998 with 832 Reads

Bacterial Leaching of Kure Copper Ore. ... economically by using bacteria in heap and agitation leaching processes. ... of zinc sulfide concentrates and sulfide-containing refractory gold ores ...

Bioleaching is the extraction of metals from their ores through the use of living organisms.This is much cleaner than the traditional heap leaching using cyanide. Bioleaching is one of several applications within biohydrometallurgy and several methods are used to recover copper, zinc, lead, arsenic, antimony, nickel, molybdenum, gold, silver, and cobalt

A pyrite ore containing 3.2 g/ton of gold finely disseminated in the sulphide matrix was leached to recover this precious metal. The leaching was carried out in columns containing 200 kg of ore .

Refractory ores are normally have either a high sulfide content that masks the gold preventing cyanide leaching of the gold, or high organic content that also block gold leaching (reabsorbs the gold), or it can have a high clay content that also soaks up the cyanide.

After bacterial pretreatment the ore was treated with alkaline solutions until the pH of the ore effluents was stabilized in the range of 9–10. The leaching of the gold was then started with solutions containing amino acids of microbial origin and thiosulphate as the gold-complexing agents.

FOR GOLD RECOVERY FROM REFRACTORY ORES In this article, pre-treatment such as bio-leaching before cyanidation is discussed as an alternative technique to treat refractory gold ores containing pyrite and arsenopyrite. There are two methods of bacterial leaching, namely stirred reactor bio-leaching and bio-heap leach processes. The examples of

Advances in high-temperature heap leaching of refractory copper sulphide ores conditions for bacterial activity in the heaps. Specially designed column tests are required to simulate the natural dynamic temperature behaviour in a large-scale heap, by .

It may well be economic, however, to use a bacterial pre-leach of crushed material to release the encapsulated gold and make it amenable to a standard alkaline cyanide heap-leaching process or to ...

> Bacterial Leaching Core has extensive experience in testwork relating to bacterially assisted leaching of base metal sulphide and refractory gold ores. Test programmes carried out have included use of a range of bioreactors for oxidation of concentrates and aerated columns for heap leach simulation studies.

The application of heap leaching to more refractory chalcopyrite material is still under development. Figure 1 – Relationship between ore grade and method of recovery During sulphide heap leaching, bacterial activity can be utilised to catalyse the oxidation of iron, which acts as an electron carrier between the mineral and oxygen for

Carbonaceous gold ores can have the carbon adsorb the gold onto its surface, and as a result will not be recovered from the pregnant solution. Leaching gold from sulfide ores is difficult, at best. Generally, the recovery for cyanide leaching of sulfide or refractory ores is no better than 30%, which is not a worthwhile venture.

Bacterial heap-leaching: Practice in Zijinshan copper mine ... in-situ and heap leaching of copper sulfide ores coupled with microbial ... arsenopyrite in refractory gold ores to liberate cyanide ...

Nichromet both has a process that uses chloride and bromide to leach gold from refractory ores high in sulphides. I also suggest you look at papers by Dr. Corby Anderson that use alkaline sulfide leaching to extract gold from refractory ores. The latter can be run at .

The treatment methods can be stirred leaching, heap leaching, pool leaching and in-situ leaching. However, most of the latter three types of processes only involve the recovery of low-grade gold ore. Multi-stage bacterial oxidation can be carried out by a method such as a trough-type bacterial oxidation method and a biological heap leaching method.

The results are presented in Figure 4, which shows that for the selected consumption, bacterial heap leaching can be more economic than BIOX The choice of process obviously depends on individual ore characteristics, but for refractory sulphide ores, where flotation recovery of gold is below 90 %, the bacterial heap leach process should be ...

common method used in the leaching of gold from the ore. This process involves the dissolution of gold containing ores in dilute cyanide solution in the presence of lime and oxygen. For refractory ores such as sulfide ores and carbonaceous ores which are not susceptible to direct cyanide leaching, various

A bacterial-assisted heap leach process is employed for the solubilization of a metal from a refractory ore containing fines and/or clay wherein at least a portion of the metal is solubilized by the bacterial oxidation of sulfides and the concomitant or sequential dissolution of the metal into a leaching solution. For some metals, the leaching solution has a pH of greater than about 9.

HYDROMETALLURGY OF GOLD: NEW PERSPECTIVES AND TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY SULPHIDE ORES In the last two decades a considerable number of new hydrometallurgical processes have been developed and implemented in gold industry allowing the economical treatment of increasingly complex and lower grade ores as well as refractory ores.

Oct 30, 2013· The economic extraction of copper from low-grade ores requires low-cost processing methods such as in situ, dump and heap leaching. Bacterially assisted heap leaching of low-grade copper sulphides is a developing technology that has been applied successfully for the extraction of copper from secondary sulphide minerals such as chalcocite at a ...

Both oxide and sulfide ores can be leached, though the leach cycles are much different and sulfide leaching requires a bacterial, or bio-leach, component. In 2011 leaching, both heap leaching and in-situ leaching, produced 3.4 million metric tons of copper, 22 percent of world production.

The Leachox refractory gold process has to date been applied to the selectivetreatment of several refractory gold ores but on a relatively small scale. In this paper the successful implementation of the process, from initial testing through to commissioning at one of the world's largest refractory gold .

leaching of ores - supremewheels. Bacterial leaching of ores and other materials Spaceship Earth. Bacterial ore leaching can be applied to extract heavy metals from low grade ores, industrial wastes and other materials on an industrial scale by different procedures: dump leaching, in situ leaching, tank leaching, leaching in suspension.
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