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Gold metallurgy - Processes

Authors: Pierre BLAZY, El-Aid JDID

Publication date: June 10, 2006

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6. Detoxification of effluents and tailings from thiosulfate and thiourea processes

The thiosulfate process appears to be the only industrial alternative to cyanidation . When ammonium thiosulphate is used as a gold leaching agent, contamination is just as dangerous as with cyanide. Indeed, not only thiosulphate contamination must be taken into account, but also NH4+/NH3...

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