Timeline for Why does gold react with cyanide and sodium hydroxide
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| Mar 5, 2014 at 7:04 | comment | added | user4076 | @UncleAl "chair parade"? I am going to borrow that! :) | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 19:29 | comment | added | Uncle Al | Samir, flotation does not work on gold as such. It works on minerals that occlude gold. Do your chair parade - look it all up in Google, engineering and chemistry. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 0:21 | comment | added | Samir | I don't quite understand this answer, predominantly due to my lack of knowledge in this field. What I really want to know is how to relate the separation process (Flotation), to gold's atomic structure and bonding. Thank you! | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:52 | comment | added | Uncle Al | You don't know about gold beneficiation that involves pulverizing, chemical conditioning agents followed by intense agitation and air sparging of the agitated ore slurry to produce a mineral-rich foam. It works for pyritic and other sulfide gold in which the mineral matrix is grabbed. Cyanidation and cyanide heap leaching are entirely different. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 19:14 | comment | added | Georg | Samir asked about "flotation", which means he does not know any basics. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 18:50 | history | answered | Uncle Al | CC BY-SA 3.0 |