If sulfide ore or sulfide tailings are exposed to water and air during mining a chemical reaction creates sulfuric acid basically battery acid There has never been a sulfide mine that has not polluted nearby water resources Pollution from sulfide mining is very expensive to fix and a burden for taxpayers
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Get PriceThe two gold process flowsheets shown with some variations are probably the most commonly used In Gold Flowsheet No 1 the ore is ground in water to such a size as to free the minerals sufficiently to produce a tailing by flotation low enough in value that it may be discarded Here a Mineral Jig is used in the Ball Mill Classifier circuit
Get PriceWhy is sulfide mining bad Mining sulfide rock releases acid and toxic metals and contaminants that pollute rivers and groundwater for hundreds of years long after the profits are spent and the products buried in landfills Sulfide ores contain metals such as copper or nickel that are bonded to sulfur forming sulfide minerals
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Get PriceThe nature of the ore deposit determines the mining and mineral processing techniques applied Oxide ore deposits are frequently of such low grade e g 3 to 10 parts per million that extensive mineral processing cannot economically be justified In this case they are merely shattered by explosives and then piled into heaps for extraction by cyanidation see below These heaps can be
Get PriceSulfide Mining is the process of extracting valuable minerals or metal ores such as gold silver copper lead and zinc from the earth pdf & great mining or from a sulfide rich ore body In addition these minerals are not usually found in their pure form but rather in components of other materials such as rocks known as sulfide ores pdf
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Get PriceAbstract—Gold and silver are capable of forming stable natural compounds with different elements For gold 36 minerals are known 10 in the class Native metals intermetallic compounds and 26 in the class Sulfides selenides tellurides arsenides antimonides bismuthides For silver 194 minerals are registered in the MMA presented in 8 classes Compared to gold in the class
Get PriceIn the Earth s crust the element gold occurs in concentrations of 2 5 parts per billion ppb In order to mine it economically the gold concentration must be thousands of times higher and
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Get PriceMore commonly in a sulphide ore you would need to float the sulphide minerals assuming the gold is associated with them which it often is and then oxidise it to free the gold for cyanidation
Get PriceThe grade of gold is low The natural gold particle size is fine and mostly encased in pyrite It usually adopts the froth flotation method for collecting the sulfide and gold Then separating gold from sulfide 4 Polymetallic ore bearing gold In addition to gold there is copper lead zinc tungsten antimony etc in this kind of ore This
Get PriceWhat is Sulfide Mining Sulfide mining also known as metallic mining refers to mining operations which remove metals such as copper nickel platinum and others from sulfur bearing ores The 1 Hudson T L F D Fox and G S Plumlee 1999 Metal Mining and the Environment American Geological Institute
Get PriceThere are two main types of copper ore that are of interest copper oxide ores and copper sulfide ores Both ore types can be economically mined but they are processed in different ways Copper
Get PriceThe types of gold veins 10 26 20; 810 Views; icon 0; The gold mining process is usually determined by the physical chemical and mineralogical properties of the gold ore and gangue For example gold ore with a large difference in specific gravity and coarse disseminated grain size is generally treated by gravity separation; differences in mineral surface wettability Large and finely
Get PriceProducing a pyrite concentrate with associated gold maximizes gold recovery Download PDF > The following Danafloat collectors should be initially considered for gold pyrite ore flotation Danafloat 067 Danafloat 068 Danafloat 070 Danafloat 245 Danafloat 262E Danafloat 271
Get PriceSmelting bonds most of the remaining impurities into a melt by combining the ore with a silica matter and heating the solid waste to a lofty temperature Converting drives off the sulfur from metallic sulfides oxides any residual iron and eradicates it leaving the target mineral These 3 steps may lead to a metal that is up to 99% pure
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Get PriceA new thermochemical method is proposed to quantify Au ionic occurrences in sulfide ores as well as in pyrite porphyry copper and gold ore concentrates The study of the form in which gold occurs in sulfides is topical due huge losses of metal under the current ore dressing technologies Quantifying the Ionic form of gold in sulfide ores
Get Priceparticularly effective when gold is associated with sulfide minerals such as pyrites In a typical pyrytic gold ore the gold is encapsulated within an iron sulfide crystal structure Highly oxidized ores generally do not respond well to flotation Advantages of the flotation process are that gold values are generally liberated
Get PriceWe have two ore types; massive and semi massive sulfide Massive sulfide is about 6 5 percent nickel and 3 8 percent copper Semi massive contains about 1 5 3% nickel and copper The Eagle deposit is high grade nickel and copper but also contains trace amounts of cobalt platinum palladium silver and gold
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Get PriceOn this basis gold concentrate and sulfide concentrate are obtained by using one roughing two concentrating one scavenging flotation process The grade of gold concentrate was 57 67g / t and the recovery rate was 93 08% This process achieves the comprehensive recovery of valuable sulfide while effectively recovering the gold in the ore
Get PriceBlasting hazards of gold mining in sulfide bearing ore bodies by Yael Miron 0 Ratings 0 Want to read; 0 Currently reading; 0 Have read; Blasting hazards of gold mining in sulfide bearing ore bodies Edit Overview; View 1 Edition Details; Reviews Lists; Related Books; Publish Date 1992 Publisher U S Dept of the Interior Bureau of Mines
Get PriceThe major chemical components of the sulfide refractory gold ore and pyrite are shown in Table 2 The sulfide refractory gold ore SRGO contains 30 34% Fe 22 23% S 11 19% As 3 24% Al and 60 25 g/t Au The total content of Fe As and S is up to 63% of the sulfide refractory gold ore The pyrite contains 43 36% Fe and 41 26% S
Get PriceSpecific steps are as follows Step1 After the raw ore is ground first use jigging or shaking table to select the mixed concentrate of tin containing polymetallic sulfide minerals and discard the tailings Step2 Then regrind the mixed coarse concentrate to float the mixed concentrate of sulfide minerals
Get PricePembroke 27 MT massive sulfide grading 1% zinc 0 4% lead and 1 oz/ton silver Historical surface mine for lead in early 1900 s at Big Hill Further exploration including geophysical surveys and drilling was done in 2024 2024 Pembroke Washington Co Second Pond or Blue Hill Mine 1 MT of massive sulfide ore mined in 1972 1977
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