Use of Ozone for Gold Extraction from a Highly Refractory ...
Precious metals are generally recovered from their ores by cyanide leaching. When the gold or silver are locked up in the mineral matrix, they remain unrecovered and the ore is classified as refractory to cyanidation. ... While the conventional cyanidation of this concentrate recovers only 9% of the gold, a pretreatment with ozone before the ...