Treatment of refractory carbonaceous sulfide ores for gold recovery

摘要

Refractory carbonaceous sulfide ores are treated in a manner so as to improve gold recovery by a treatment in specific combination of steps whereby the ore is treated with chlorine after pretreatment and before cyanidation; the particular steps in the treatment of the ore have been found to be necessary as the conventional pretreatment will not improve the yields on any economic basis.