HEAP LEACHING

The mineral crushed to a lesser extent 3/8 inches is deposited in a heap leaching
watered with one solution diluted of cyanide acid (50 gr per 1000 liters of water)
Cyanide is filtered through rock; touch the metallic gold and dissolves.
The gold leaching rate depends on the transfer of cyanide and oxygen in the
surface exposed gold. The cyanide solution runs as this is filtered in the ore
playing gold and another metals that consume cyanide.
Activated charcoal refers to a set of carbonic source absorbers, characterized by
a porous structure; this is used to separate gold ions from the solution heap
leaching.
For desorption or stripping, activated charcoal absorption took place gold, is
charged with a saturated solution of sodium cyanide to a temperature of 75-95
degrees, thus the reaction that brought the gold is reversible, is desire gold is
stripped from the coal. To revive the coal and used primarily cleaned with acids
to remove carbonates and calcium presence.
*Coal is washed with deionized water to remove any solution presence.
*Dewatering.
* Coal is placed in vacuum furnaces, which are heated for 30 minutes at 700
degrees Celsius to reactivate