Redstone
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Gold Tailings

Posted on 9. Jun. 2003 - 05:24

Parindang,

You will need to do some laboratory metallurgical work to determine the best method to treat your tailings. Once you have the geochemistry of the tailings ie pyrites, carbonates, gold particle size etc etc you can start designing the gold recovery plant. I presume they are tailings from a quite recent mining operation and will be low grade-also sulphidic. What mine, tonnage -grade is estimated. Any free gold -if so a simple concentrator can produce immediate cash flow.

Ken

Recovering Or Scavenging Of Old Gold Tailings

Posted on 14. Sep. 2003 - 06:47

I have seen the use of WATER MONITORS to blast the tailings and turn them back into a slurry form. The slurried material is then drawn off the tailings piles and circuited back up into the processing area, scalped, screened and recovered.

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pelletman
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Heap Leaching

Posted on 18. Sep. 2003 - 09:59

Based on the column heap leaching testing with the U.S. Bureau of mines and reference to an article "Comparison of Agglomerated versus unagglomerated Heap Leaching Behavior in Production Heaps" G.E. McClelland, presented at SME Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisana March 2-6 and if you can get copies of papers presented in the Perth International Gold & Silver Conference & Exhibition @ Matilda Bay Campus, Perth 27 Oct-1 Nov 1988 may be of benefit to you.

Re: Scavenging Of Gold Tailings

Posted on 30. Jun. 2004 - 08:49

Parendang

How big is the tailings volume? What are the minerasl present if it is sulfides then the best way is to produce a bulk sulfide concentrate the gold will floast with the bulk sulfides.