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Title: Method for aqueous gold thiosulfate extraction using copper-cyanide pretreated carbon adsorption

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1089418

A gold thiosulfate leaching process uses carbon to remove gold from the leach liquor. The activated carbon is pretreated with copper cyanide. A copper (on the carbon) to gold (in solution) ratio of at least 1.5 optimizes gold recovery from solution. To recover the gold from the carbon, conventional elution technology works but is dependent on the copper to gold ratio on the carbon.

Research Organization:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FC26-02NT41607; FC26-05NT42457
Assignee:
NETL
Patent Number(s):
8,500,847
Application Number:
13/094,139
OSTI ID:
1089418
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Cyanide detoxification process patent April 2003
Recovery of precious metals patent August 1985

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