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Zinc cementation of high-temperature carbon eluates is now used extensively in gold processing to replace electrowinning. Under these conditions, zinc consumption is high. In this paper, zinc solubility is presented as functions of temperature, cyanide concentration and pH in the presence of gold, silver and mercury cyanides (both individually and in combined solutions). Based on the experimental results, cementation of these metals is characterized and discussed. The importance of cyanide concentration in cementation efficiency and the effect of mercury and its co-precipitation onto zinc are also discussed.
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M&MP paper 94–658. Discussion of this peer-reviewed and approved paper is invited and must be submitted, in duplicate, prior to May 31, 1996.
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Wang, G.X., Fuerstenau, M.C. & Marsden, J.O. Zinc cementation of eluates from carbon-adsorption systems. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 13, 22–26 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03402712
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03402712