
Processing, smelting and refining gold World Gold Council
More gold is recovered by cyanidation than by any other process. In cyanidation, metallic gold is oxidised and dissolved in an alkaline cyanide solution. When gold dissolutionplete, the gold bearing solution is separated from the solids. With ores of higher gold content greater than 20 grams of gold per tonne of ore, cyanidation isplished by vat leaching, which involves holding