A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation

Cyanide soluble copper in gold ores causes numerous problems for gold producers using cyanidation. This includes increased costs from high cyanide consumption and a requirement to destroy cyanide in the tailings before discharge into a tailings storage facility. This thesis details the results of fu...

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Main Author: Simons, Andrew Murray
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1799
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description Cyanide soluble copper in gold ores causes numerous problems for gold producers using cyanidation. This includes increased costs from high cyanide consumption and a requirement to destroy cyanide in the tailings before discharge into a tailings storage facility. This thesis details the results of fundamental studies of sulfidisation processes, such as SART (sulfidisation, acidification, recycle, and thickening), to recycle cyanide and in turn recover copper from gold cyanidation tailings.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-17992017-02-20T06:38:45Z A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation Simons, Andrew Murray Cyanide soluble copper in gold ores causes numerous problems for gold producers using cyanidation. This includes increased costs from high cyanide consumption and a requirement to destroy cyanide in the tailings before discharge into a tailings storage facility. This thesis details the results of fundamental studies of sulfidisation processes, such as SART (sulfidisation, acidification, recycle, and thickening), to recycle cyanide and in turn recover copper from gold cyanidation tailings. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1799 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Simons, Andrew Murray
A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
title A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
title_full A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
title_fullStr A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
title_full_unstemmed A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
title_short A fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
title_sort fundamental study of copper and cyanide recovery from gold tailings by sulfidisation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1799