A great gold producer
ASIA using TNT stackers and portable conveyors . The ore is then leached with cyanide solution that is heated with waste heat from our power station .
“ Cyanide solution is collected using a system of under heap drainage and the solution is then sent through carbon adsorption columns . The solution is adsorbed onto the carbon , which is then what we call the pregnant carbon . This is then put through a desorption column where it ’ s stripped of its gold . The gold is again converted to a solution , which is then electrowon to the point where it ’ s a high gold content sludge and then it ’ s put through a final refining step and it comes out as a gold bar .”
A great gold producer
Nordgold has conducted an extensive exploration programme to identify the Gross deposit and its reserves . “ It has a 17-year mine life , relatively soft ore , and it should be a strong , low-cost , great gold producer ,” Wilcox reveals . “ It ’ s highly recoverable through heap leach so that ’ s one of the great advantages of it .”
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