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Record W2995103756 · doi:10.14288/1.0381032

Thiocyanate leaching of gold

2019· article· en· W2995103756 on OpenAlex
Sarpomah Roselyn Yeboah

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Bibliographic record

VenuecIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicExtraction and Separation Processes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLeaching (pedology)ThiocyanateEnvironmental scienceChemistryInorganic chemistrySoil science

Abstract

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This study focused on evaluating sodium thiocyanate as an alternative reagent to the conventional cyanidation process for leaching of gold ores. Goldcorp’s Coffee project in Yukon-Canada supplied three mineral samples namely, Supremo Oxide 68151, Supremo oxide 68151, Supremo Composite 72142 for this study. As a baseline for comparison with thiocyanate extraction results, cyanidation tests performed on all the three samples showed that the samples are amenable to the conventional cyanidation leaching, yielding gold extractions as high as 97% for Supremo composite 72142. A series of leaching tests were performed on the 72142 B sample with SCN⁻ solutions to determine the feasible regions of gold dissolution and to maximize gold dissolution. The leaching tests were conducted in the acidic regime (pH 1.5 -2) for these samples. Notable results with SCN⁻, ferric sulphate and potassium iodide variation showed gold extractions of 91 % in solutions containing 0.15 M thiocyanate; 92% with 0.15 M SCN⁻ and 0.10 M Fe(III); 94 % with 0.10 M SCN⁻ and 0.05 M KI; 94 % with 0.10 M SCN⁻, 0.05 M Fe(III) and 0.02 M KI and 95 % with 0.15 M SCN⁻ and 10 g/L H₂O₂. The kinetic leach data were well fitted by the CIP/CIL leach model developed by Nicol et al, giving estimates of the leach rate parameter of 72.1 hr⁻¹ and leach tails grade after infinite leach time of 0.17 g/t, confirming fast leaching of the 72142 B sample. The tests ended with gold adsorption from thiocyanate solution onto carbon. The average gold loading onto carbon was 2100 g/t and 48 g/t for carbon concentrations of 0.25 g/L and 20 g/L, respectively. Results obtained were excellent with greater than 98 % gold adsorbed in less than 0.5 hr when carbon concentration was above 5 g/L. The results show that the gold ore from the Goldcorp’s Coffee project in Yukon-Canada is amenable to extraction with acidified thiocyanate based lixiviant and subsequent adsorption of the gold-thiocyanate complex onto activated carbon, giving gold extraction results that are comparable to cyanide-based gold extraction. The thiocyanate system is, therefore, a competitive and alternative leaching reagent to conventional cyanidation.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.945
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.163
Teacher spread0.157 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it