Column bio-oxidation of low-grade refractory gold ore containing high

Gold resources are explored and mined widely in the world. But with the increasing depletion of free-milling gold ores, the mining and utilization of refractory gold ores have become a huge challenge for metallurgy and mineral processing (Konadu et al., 2019).At present, gold acquired from refractory gold ores has been accounted for one-third of the total gold production …

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disseminated gold from the flotation concentrate resulted from processing of a refractory ore of one of Russian gold deposits. Concentrate description Gold grade of the head flotation concentrate was 29.6 g/t. The concentrate size was 80% -80 um. Mineral composition of the concentrate comprises 17% of rock-forming minerals, 59% of pyrite and 24%

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Getting a Handle on Refractory Ore May Determine Gold…

A "refractory" gold ore is an ore that has ultra-fine gold particles disseminated throughout its gold occluded minerals. These ores are naturally resistant to recovery by standard cyanidation and carbon adsorption processes. ... Miners could ship high-grade refractory ore or concentrate from several mines to centralized processing ...

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Recent challenges in biological cyanidation and oxidation of …

In mining industries, biomining (comprising biooxidation and bioleaching) is implemented to extract metals from specific ores and waste streams with less environmental effect and expense. Usually, micron-sized gold particles are held in a crystal lattice of iron sulfide minerals and expensively extracted using common approaches. Researchers and industries …

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Bio-oxidation of a high-sulfur refractory gold concentrate with …

A two-stage chemical-biological oxidation approach, which applied a high temperature chemical oxidation stage prior to the bio-oxidation stage, was employed to accelerate the bio-oxidation rate of Axi gold concentrate with pyrite as the main sulfide phase. The extraction levels of Fe and S were 67.0% and 72.9% in the traditional one-stage bio-oxidation approach, …

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Refractory Gold Ore Treatment Methods

Leaching and Recovering Gold from Antimony Minerals ... South Africa, where a refractory high-antimony gold ore is being treated, flotation and cyanidation of the flotation concentrates and tailings are being practiced. The association of the antimony and gold is very intimate, and during 1946, while the antimony recovery amounted to 70.6 per ...

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A FUNDAMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE HIGH …

pressure within a gold operation to reach the highest percent recovery, no matter what kind of ore is presented for treatment. For double refractory gold ores, the most crucial unit operation is performed by the roaster by creating a high temperature oxidation of the ore. An efficient roasting operation creates a

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Treatment of carbonaceous refractory gold ores

Autoclave leaching of refractory gold ores on an industrial scale started in the 1980's because of the high gold price and because pressure oxidation is an environmentally accepted alternative to roasting. Since 1985 about five autoclave leaching plants have been commissioned for treating refractory gold ores.

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Pressure Oxidation Pretreatment of Refractory Gold

Pressure oxidation of gold containing concentrates and ores is an effective pretreatment for liberating refractory gold. This is particularly true when an appreciable portion of the gold is associated with sulfides and is not amenable to conventional cyanidation. A brief review of the literature on pressure oxidation of refractory gold materials is presented. The chemistry of the …

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ACID PRESSURE OXIDATION OF REFRACTORY GOLD MINERAL …

Pressure oxidation of these refractory gold mineral carriers is a very complex reaction system involving several oxidation and hydrolytic reactions which occur in series and/or parallel. ... The r e s u l t s of F i g . 3 support S h e r r i t t Gordon's strategy of applying very high oxidation temperatures to prevent the formation of elemental ...

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Pressure Oxidation Pretreatment ofRefractory Gold

refractory gold. This is particularly true when an appre­ ciable portion ofthe gold is associated with sulfides and is not amenable to conventional cyanidation. A briefreview of the literature on pressure oxidation of refractory gold matenals is presented. The chemistry of the aqueous oxidation of arsenopyrite and pyrite is discussed. Data

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Pre concentration and pressure oxidation of Porgera refractory gold …

The complex mineralogy of the Porgera resource has a pronounced effect on process selection for the recovery of refractory gold and silver. Intimate association of gold with pyrite necessitates a high degree of sulphur preoxidation to achieve acceptable levels of gold recovery. Acid pressure oxidation has been demonstrated to be the only commercially proven process capable of …

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Arsenic removal strategy in the processing of an …

The depletion of large oxidized‑gold deposits triggered the processing of refractory ores, where the precious metals are associated with sulfides and other compounds of base metals, antimony or arsenic (Jha and Kramer, 1984).There are several alternatives for the treatment of refractory minerals, which have been studied for several decades (Chilton, 1958; …

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Pre-oxidation of high-sulfur and high-arsenic refractory gold

During bio-oxidation refractory gold ores processes, mineral decomposition is believed to be mostly due to chemical attack by ferric iron, with the main role of the microorganisms being to reoxidize the resultant ferrous iron back to ferric iron (Rawlings, 2002). As a reference point, in this study experiments were generally conducted with ...

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Pretreatment of refractory gold ore by curing with …

Gold, a signicant precious metal, has high corrosion resist-ance, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity []. In 1 the eld of gold extraction and smelting, refractory gold ore is one of the most important gold resources at present [2]. Approximately 30% of the world's gold production is derived from refractory gold ore, and this proportion

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Thermodynamic Behavior of Pyrite and Arsenopyrite in …

Gold ores containing pyrite and arsenopyrite are commonly recognized as refractory ores, and especially, the gold leaching rate is very low, when these minerals exist together, because ultrafine gold particles are locked up in sulphur and arsenic mineral matrix [24, 25]. Although the thermodynamic study on the oxidation of pyrite and ...

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Oxidative leaching of refractory sulphidic gold tailings with …

The effect of temperature in the range of 20–65 °C on gold extraction from refractory gold tailings containing pyrite in 20% (v/v) of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulphate [Bmim + HSO 4 −]-water solution with thiourea as complexing agent and iron(III) sulphate oxidant, at pH of 1 was examined for 12 h leaching time intervals.The experimental results revealed that …

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Pre-oxidation of refractory gold concentrate by …

In most refractory raw gold minerals, more than 90% of gold is distributed in sulfide, encapsulated or embedded in the crystal lattice of pyrite and/or arsenopyrite in the form of fine or sub-fine particles. ... High redox potential promotes oxidation of pyrite under neutral conditions: Implications for optimizing pyrite autotrophic ...

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Flowsheet Development of A Refractory Gold Ore To …

The gold is particulate within arsenopyrite grains. The RGO ore is a complex refractory gold ore. Whilst flotation and concentrate roasting, pressure oxidation (POX), and bacterial leaching (BIOX) were all studied the environmental regulators would not agree to chemically changing the arsenopyrite containing the gold.

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Oxidation of a refractory gold concentrate using pressure

The gold group at SGS Minerals Metallurgy (Malaga, Western Australia) has conducted a test programme in which a refractory gold ore sample was beneficiated by bench-scale floatation to generate a bulk sulphide concentrate grading 10.6 g/t Au, 13.1% S, 11.4% Fe, 0.18% C and 2.36% As. Mineralogical analyses determined that gold in the ore was ...

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