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    Galvanic interaction of grinding media with arsenopyrite and pyrite and its effect on gold cyanide leaching

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    Rabieh, Alireza
    Eksteen, Jacques
    Albijanic, Boris
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Rabieh, A. and Eksteen, J. and Albijanic, B. 2017. Galvanic interaction of grinding media with arsenopyrite and pyrite and its effect on gold cyanide leaching. Minerals Engineering.
    Source Title
    Minerals Engineering
    DOI
    10.1016/j.mineng.2017.10.018
    ISSN
    0892-6875
    School
    Dept of Mining Eng & Metallurgical Eng
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58735
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    © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. Galvanic interactions between different types of grinding media and arsenopyrite and pyrite, during the grinding was quantified and the effect of galvanic interactions on gold cyanide leaching was investigated. The synthetic ores were prepared by mixing arsenopyrite or pyrite with clean gravity gold concentrate and quartz. In the presence of arsenopyrite, the results showed that when the grinding of the ore was performed using the 30% chromium or ceramic grinding media, the gold leaching was more efficient than that when the forged steel media was used. Based upon the measurement, it was suggested that the galvanic interactions between the forged steel grinding media and sulfide minerals resulted in the formation of more iron hydroxide than that when the 30% chromium or ceramic grinding media was used. As a result, free cyanide was converted to ferrocyanide thereby lowering the cyanide available for the gold leaching. Additionally, the galvanic interactions also reduced the dissolved oxygen content and thus cyanide gold leaching was more difficult particularly at the early stages of the leaching process because the dissolved oxygen is required to dissolve gold. In contrast, when the grinding was performed with the 30% chromium or ceramic media, a very small amount of free cyanide was converted into by-products. Cyanide gold leaching was the most efficient when the 30% chromium media was used during the grinding of the ore for both pyrite and arsenopyrite. In addition, in the presence of pyrite, due to the lower galvanic current between pyrite and grinding media in comparison with arsenopyrite, the amount of iron hydroxide was lower, and thus more free cyanide was available for the gold extraction. These results indicated that more gold was extracted in the presence of pyrite rather than the arsenopyrite for a given media type used. More precisely, in the presence of pyrite, when the 21% chromium grinding media was used, 70% of gold was extracted while it was 60% in the case of arsenopyrite in 24 h. The selection of grinding media appears to be significant when cyanide reagent consumption is evaluated.

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