the process in which gold is extracted from mine dumps

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  The Environmental Disaster That is the Gold Industry

  2014214 · The majority of the world’s gold is extracted from open pit mines, where huge volumes of earth are scoured away and processed for trace elements.

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  Acid mine drainage arising from gold mining activity in …

  200331 · Gold was initially extracted using a mercury amalgam method, but as mining operations became deeper, unoxidized ore containing pyrite (FeS 2) was encountered, which interfered with the extraction. At about this time, the MacArthur-Forrest process of gold extraction, using cyanide, was developed, and was successfully applied to Witwatersrand …

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  2023102 · Abstract Land pollution at gold mine dumps requires sustainable rehabilitation. A study was conducted at Muriel gold mine, Zimbabwe to investigate the integrated effects of dump age, topographic position and soil depth on chemical degradation and vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides) performance.

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  Evaluation of mobility, fractionation, and potential environmental risk ...

  2020121 · In this province, there are active and derelict gold mines, which disposed of their waste in open areas called mine dumps or mine tailings. Mine dumps are found throughout the province and have become persistent sources of toxic metal contamination to the surroundings.

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  A systematic review of sustainable gold extraction from raw …

  202231 · Drawing on recent experimental and commercial developments, this review reappraises potential substitute leach reagents for cyanide in the gold mining sector. In addition to extraction, the application of these reagents in the gold processing, pre-treatment and gold purification stages is explored. The main objective here is to discuss how the …

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  Dumps in South Africa prove golden - The New York Times

  2007416 · The dumps of crushed rock and sand - once discarded in the mining process - yield only about 0.45 grams, or 1.5 hundredths of an ounce, of gold for every reprocessed metric ton. But with the ...

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  Evaluation of mobility, fractionation, and potential environmental risk ...

  Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Evaluation of mobility, fractionation, and potential environmental risk of trace metals present in soils from Struibult gold mine dumps" by Sihle V. Mngadi et al.

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  (PDF) The impact of acid mine drainage in South Africa

  201161 · Since the quarrying of mines began, dumps containing the wasteful end-products from gold mining have become a common sight around mining towns and have been releasing contaminated water for decades.

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  Gold | Geoscience Australia

  2018517 · The electrolytic process (Wohlwill process) involves dissolving gold from the bullion (anode) in a chloride solution and redepositing the gold on a pure gold or titanium cathode.

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