New Chloride Leaching Process for Gold Extraction from Refractory Ores

摘要

From certain gold ores, known as refractory gold ores, the gold cannot be fully recovered by direct cyanide leaching. A major cause of this is the occurrence of much of the gold in such ores in highly disseminated form in sulfide, arsenide and sometimes antimonide minerals. Three methods have been developed for treatment of such refractory ores, each of which involves breaking down the sulfide and arsenide minerals by oxidation before cyanide extraction.