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Oz, pyrite is not an arsenic ore. arsenopyrite is. also orpiment. and realgar. identifying the two is fairly simple with easy to do tests. pyrite streak is greenish black, while arsenopyrite is dark grey to black. specific gravity of pyrite is 5.1, while arsenopyrite is 6.1. arsenopyrite hardness is 5.5 to 6. pyrite hardness is 6 to 6.5.
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M inimizing potential environmental impacts is presently a pressing priority for the mining industry. In boreal regions, land, forest, water (surface and groundwater), and peatland may incur disturbances due to mining activities. Concerns are often associated with mine waste storage facilities (tailings and waste rock piles) from which contaminated mine drainage (acid mine drainage ...
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Depth profiles of cell numbers showed that the compositions of the microbial communities are greatly different at the three sites and also strongly varied between zones of oxidized and unoxidized tailings. Maximum cell numbers of up to 109 cells g−1 dry weight were determined in the pyrite or pyrrhotite oxidation zones, whereas cell numbers ...
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encapsulated in sulfide (sulphide) minerals. The quartz veins at Reefton contain pyrite and arsenopyrite as well as stibnite [Sb 2S 3] on the vein margins (OceanaGold, 2010). Both mines are classified as low sulphide gold (Au) quartz vein type deposits as per the geoenvironmental models developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (du Bray, 1995).
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The concentration of gold leaching tailings, where the diameter of tailings is 100-600 μ m, is 35%, pH is 10.78, the initial cyanide concentration in the solution is 30.66 mg/L, and the cyanide leached from the leach tailings is 11.78 mg/L. The total carbon content of tailings is 2.47-6.67%, in which the organic carbon content is 1.47-4.29%.
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demanded up to this point. The need of gold in-creases from time to time though its price is fluctu-ated (Lotter et al., 2011). ... A complex mineralogical structure of Pongkor tailings. Gold (G) is associated with sphalerite (sph) and included by pyrite (Py) ... information can be used as a reference in select-ing appropriate and efficient ...
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Terminology. Tailings are also called mine dumps, culm dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue, slickens, or terra-cone (terrikon).. Examples Sulfide minerals. The effluent from the tailings from the mining of sulfidic minerals has been described as "the largest environmental liability of the mining industry". These tailings contain large amounts of pyrite (FeS 2) and Iron(II) sulfide (FeS ...
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Arsenian pyrite, formed during Cretaceous gold mineralization, is the primary source of As along the Melones fault zone in the southern Mother Lode Gold District of California. Mine tailings and associated weathering products from partially submerged inactive gold mines at Don Pedro Reservoir, on the Tuolumne River, contain approx. 20-1300 ppm As.
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The pyrite values include all gold so intimately associated with the pyrite that cyanidation for a prolonged period under ideal laboratory technique will not dissolve it. Unlike the gangue values, finer grinding has comparatively little effect on reducing the pyrite values of the cyanide tailing.
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Tailings may also contain mineral processing reagents, including salts and cyanide. There is also an increasing interest in new technologies to recycle and utilize mine tailings more effectively. For example, the alkali-activation of some mine tailings allows binders with sufficient compressive strength to be used as mine backfill or raw ...
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Sep 1, 2021However, in the case of gold-silver tailings, as the sulfur gangue content (mainly pyrite) is considerable, special care should be taken, as SO 2 can be produced in the foaming process, which has lower thermal conductivity than CO 2 but requires more control, since it is known to be harmful . Therefore, in order to consider gold-silver tailings for the production of ceramic foams, a previous process of elimination of impurities such as high sulfur gangue should be implemented.
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the vein contain abundant sulfides. Inspection of the tailings dumps of these adits showed quartz veins with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and bornite in a country rock of pyroxenite. Sulfides were frequently oxided to limonite or left molds in the quartz. Locally drusy quartz in euhedral crystals 3-7 mm long projected into cavities. Sulfides were
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Visible and invisible inclusions consist of Ag-Au-Te sulfosalt and monazite-(La) particles. Trace metal concentrations grade up to 24,000 g/t for cobalt, up to 4000 g/t for lanthanum, and up to 4 g/t for gold. Pyrite, considered a waste material, is removed from the valuable copper ore material and sent to the tailings.
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Long-term Risk of Tailings Dam Failure. Figure 1a and 1b. Two NASA photos taken one-week apart reveal the massive scope of tailings mud discharges into Hazeltine Creek, Polley Lake, and Quesnel Lake, following failure of the Mount Polley Mine's modern design tailings pond on August 4, 2014. Large tailings dams, which are built to contain ...
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Mill tailings from gold mining may typically contain cyanide, whereas tailings from uranium processing may be radioactive and, if so, should not be used in construction applications. Mill tailings from processing of sulfide ores may contain heavy metals such as arsenic. Some sources of taconite tailings have been found to contain asbestos fibers.
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A historic gold tailings impoundment in the Timmins area, Ontario, Canada is sulphide bearing with moderate to high carbonate contents. ... Although dams were in place to contain tailings in TMA1 and 2, they were generally not suited to raise water levels sufficiently to flood the beached tailings. ... The tailings are dominated by pyrite (65 ...
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Ore is free milling gold in quartz with auriferous pyrite, arsenopyrite, and minor amounts of galena. Sulfides concentrates have been generally high for a Mother Lode mine, carrying 6-7 ounces of gold per ton (Logan, 1934). ... When steam powered, the hoist could drop the skips at speeds up to 2200 feet per minute. Ore was dumped over a grizzly ...
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The article presents the results of researches on the processing of gold-bearing old sorption tailings. The tailings sample contains 4.75 g/ton of gold and is a refractory raw material, with a predominance of sulfide minerals — arsenopyrite and pyrite. During the gold extraction experiments, the effect of oxidizing agents, surfactants, and other chemicals and combinations on the leaching ...
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Leadville gold ore tailings containing auriferous pyrite were first concentrated by froth flotation. The pyrite concentrate was treated for different periods of time with 12-weeks-adapted Thiobacillus ferrooxidans before cyanide leaching. The bioleaching of the concentrate before cyanide leaching increased the gold extraction from 32 to 95% and that of silver from 48 to > 98%.
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A method to recover gold lost in roaster calcine-leach tailings, due to the formation of cyanide refractory compounds or morphologies during the roasting process. The process can include acid leaching of magnetic concentrate from roaster leach tailings, combining the acid leach slurry to the pre-acidulation tank for pressure oxidation feed, acid pressure oxidation of the pressure oxidation ...
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After extraction of the gold, the crushed rock is deposited on waste heaps known as slimes or tailings dumps. The conglomerates typically contain about 3% pyrite, which ends up on the dumps.
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Especially old flotation tailings contain more gold content due to overage and inefficient processing methods. The amount of gold in tailings depends on the feed. Flotation tailings from ores contain from 1.5 to 3.5 ppm as reported in some works. This constitutes a potential resource for further treatment [9] - [13] .
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The ASGM tailings samples were collected from Barangay Gango, Libona, Bukidnon; Barangay del Pilar, Cabadbaran City, Agusan del norte; and Barangay Mt Diwata (Mt Diwalwal), Monkayo, Compostela Valley as shown in Figure 1.In the Philippines, the usual process employed by small-scale gold miners to recover gold is amalgamation during ball milling followed by the recovery of mercury-gold ...
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Jul 22, 2022Study area description. The acidic gold mine tailings (AG) and the alkaline gold mine tailings (AN) are located in Sabie in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa and are located approximately 3.8 km from each other, as seen in Fig. 1.Sabie has an average yearly rainfall of 1195 mm, with the highest average relative humidity of 80% in January and a lowest average relative humidity of 58% in ...
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Introduction. Tailings consist of ground rock and process effluents that are generated in a mine processing plant. Mechanical and chemical processes are used to extract the desired product from the run of the mine ore and produce a waste stream known as tailings. This process of product extraction is never 100% efficient, nor is it possible to ...
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The facility will reprocess the ground rock, known as tailings, from which gold was previously extracted in the Golden Sunlight mills. The focus will be on removing and concentrating sulfur (iron pyrite) to be sold to and used in gold production by Barrick operated and majority owned Nevada Gold Mines, the largest gold producing complex in the ...
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Minerals at the mine: Calcite, Pyrite, Quatrz, Tourmaline, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite, Silver, Copper, Zinc. 3 OUNCE PER TON GOLD, SOME UP TO 5 OUNCE PER TON GOLD The Evening Star mine, better known as the Big Dick/Treasure Mountain, lies 6 miles due south of Elliston on the summit of the mountain on the south side of Little ...
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Potential contaminants of concern in mining and mineral processing include: (i) solutes used in metal recovery such as cyanide at some gold mines; (ii) blasting residuals such as nitrate that enter the mine water circuit or are incorporated as soluble residues within a waste rock facility; (iii) compounds such as arsenic and selenium that can be leached and mobilized from tailings and waste ...
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Sep 23, 2021Geochemical and geophysical investigations were performed in an area of the Darasun ore cyanidation tailings impoundment, which is located in a permafrost region. The tailings contain up to 40 wt% pyrite and 5.7 wt% arsenopyrite. The purpose of this work was to determine the composition and mechanisms of transformation of the tailings and species of As, Au, Ag, Be, and Tl in drainage waters ...
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Shear Zone "A" defined over 400 m strike length with near-surface drill intercepts up to 0.45 g/t gold over 34 m (2008). ... This gold occurs in quartz-calcite-pyrite cemented hydrothermal breccias and quartz vein zones 50 metres along a strike length of more than 250 metres. ... 4.45% Pb and 1.36% Zn hosted by quartz from tailings in the Lum ...
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Ore is free milling gold in quartz with auriferous pyrite, arsenopyrite, and minor amounts of galena. Sulfides concentrates have been generally high for a Mother Lode mine, carrying 6-7 ounces of gold per ton (Logan, 1934). ... When steam powered, the hoist could drop the skips at speeds up to 2200 feet per minute. Ore was dumped over a grizzly ...
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Nov 1, 2020The chemical analysis of the gold tailing (RGT) and pyrite are shown in Table 1. The occurrence of gold in the different phases of the gold tailing is shown in Table 2 (Detection was carried out in Changsha Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, China), it indicates that exposed gold is only 13.10% and up to 86.90% of gold is encapsulated.
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Gold mine appoximately 40 kilometres north-west of Peak Hill, and 20 kilometres north-west of the Horseshoe Mine. Perilya Mining purchased Fortnum in 1994 and in six years produced 540 000 oz of gold until the mine closed in 2001. Gleneagle Gold re-opened the mine in 2006 however only one year later the company went into receivership and the ...
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Microbiological pyrite oxidation in a mine tailings heap and its relevance to the death of vegetation. Geomicrobiol J 17:151-162. Crossref, Google Scholar; Schroeder K, Rufaut CG, Smith C, Mains D, Craw D. 2005. Rapid plant-cover establishment on gold mine tailings in southern New Zealand: glasshouse screening trials. Int J Phytorem 7:307-322.
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ore, the volume of tailings produced is growing, and management of these tailings has become a major part of gold mining activity (Botin 2009; Lottermoser 2010; Hudson-Edwards et al. 2011). Gold mines in Central Otago have been producing tailings since mining began in the 1860s, and many areas of tailings > 1 km2 are still apparent in the land-
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The chemical technology for recovery precious metals Au and Ag from mature flotation tailings of copper-pyrite ores by two-stage sintering with chlorine-ammonium reagents and leaching of bakes with water is developed. The chemical extraction of gold and silver is carried out, using NH4Cl and NH4NO3 reagents in the ratios of 1:1 at a temperature of 250 °C, and 2:1 at 200 °C.
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The three types of tailings are named copper tailings I (CTI), copper tailings II (CTII) and gold tailings (GT), respectively, to simplify the narrative. The original tailings are shown in Fig. 1 .
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Heavy metal contamination from gold mining recorded in Porites lobata skeletons, Buyat-Ratototok district, North Sulawesi, Indonesia By Evan Edinger Mineralogy and trace element relative solubility patterns of shallow marine sediments affected by submarine tailings disposal and artisanal gold mining, Buyat-Ratototok district, North Sulawesi ...
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Waste Rock Production Up to approximately 90 million tonnes per annum Waste Rock Dumps Two waste dump extensions will be developed to contain approximately 1,300 Mt of waste material. Tailings Disposal A new tailings storage facility will be constructed to contain some 370 Mt of tailings. Products Gold Bullion and gold/copper concentrate.
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