Nevada Gold Cyanide Mill Tailings Regulation: A Comparison
Conventional cyanide tank leaching methods are used on gold ores with adequate grade (gold content per ton) and tonnage (quantity of ore available for leaching) to justify the complexity of design, and higher capital cost as compared to cyanide heap leach methods. A gold mill can be divided into 4 major areas: ore mining and size reduction, leaching, gold recovery, and tailings disposal. Once