Gold Ore Processing

2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-444-63658-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 1040 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 3047 g

Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations, Second Edition, brings together all the technical aspects relevant to modern gold ore processing, offering a practical perspective that is vital to the successful and responsible development, operation, and closure of any gold ore processing operation. This completely updated edition features coverage of established, newly implemented, and emerging technologies; updated case studies; and additional topics, including automated mineralogy and geometallurgy, cyanide code compliance, recovery of gold from e-waste, handling of gaseous emissions, mercury and arsenic, emerging non-cyanide leaching systems, hydro re-mining, water management, solid–liquid separation, and treatment of challenging ores such as double refractory carbonaceous sulfides. Outlining best practices in gold processing from a variety of perspectives, Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations is a must-have reference for anyone working in the gold industry, including metallurgists, geologists, chemists, mining engineers, and many others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Mike

Adams, Mike D.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Metallische Werkstoffe
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Metallurgie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Mechanische und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Gold – An Historical Introduction

Part I. Project Development
Economic Evaluation of Gold Projects
2. Overview of the Gold Mining Industry and Major Gold Deposits
3. Evaluation and Funding of Capital Projects in Mining

Feasibility Study Management
4. Sampling Procedures
5. Mineralogical Investigation of Gold Ores
6. Geometallurgical Characterization and Automated Mineralogy of Gold Ores
7. Process Flowsheet Selection
8. Metallurgical Test Work: Gold Processing Options, Physical Ore Properties, and Cyanide Management
9. Process Simulation and Modeling
10. Feasibility Study Plant Design

Commissioning
11. Commissioning

Safety, Process Control and Environmental Management
12. The International Cyanide Management Code: Ensuring Best Practice in the Gold Industry
13. Approaches to Cyanide Code Compliance for Tailings Storage Facilities
14. Process Control

Closure and Rehabilitation
15. Closure and Rehabilitation of Gold-Processing Plants
16. Closure and Rehabilitation of Gold Mines with a Focus on Tailings Storage Facilities

Part II. Unit Operations
Comminution and Solid-LiquidSeparation
17. Comminution Circuits for Gold Ore Processing
18. Liquid–Solid Separation in Gold Processing

Concentration
19. Advances in Gravity Gold Technology
20. Flotation of Gold and Gold-Bearing Ores

Oxidation of Sulfide Ores and Concentrates
21. Pressure Oxidation Overview
22. Bacterial Oxidation of Refractory Gold Concentrates
23. Roasting Developments – Especially Oxygenated Roasting
24. Roasting of Gold Ore in the Circulating Fluidized-Bed Technology

Leaching
25. Heap Leaching of Gold and Silver Ores
26. Advances in the Cyanidation of Gold
27. Alternative Lixiviants to Cyanide for Leaching Gold Ores
28. Thiosulfate as an Alternative Lixiviant to Cyanide for Gold Ores
29. Chloride as an Alternative Lixiviant to Cyanide for Gold Ores

Gold Recovery
30. Carbon-in-Pulp
31. Zinc Cementation
32. Resin-in-Pulp and Resin-in-Solution
33. Electrowinning
34. Refining of Gold- and Silver-Bearing Doré

Disposal of Residues
35. Cyanide Treatment: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes
36. Cyanide Recovery
37. Tailings Storage Facilities
38. Water Management in Gold Ore Processing
39. Retreatment of Gold Residues
40. Practical Considerations in the Hydro Re-Mining of Gold Tailings
41. Developments in Arsenic Management in the Gold Industry
42. Mercury in Gold Processing

Part III. Case Study Flowsheets
Polymetallic Ores
43. Gold-Copper Ores
44. Case Study Flowsheets: Copper–Gold Concentrate Treatment
45. Processing of High-Silver Gold Ores
46. Recovery of Gold as By-Product from the Base-Metals Industries
47. Extraction of Gold from Platinum Group Metal Ores

Refractory Ores
48. Refractory Sulfide Ores—Case Studies
49. Preg-Robbing Gold Ores
50. Double-Refractory Carbonaceous Sulfidic Gold Ores
51. Treatment of Gold–Telluride Ores
52. Treatment of Antimonial Gold Ores

Other Gold-Bearing Materials
53. Gold – A Key Enabler of a Circular Economy: Recycling of Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment

Summary of Gold Plants and Processes, Emerging and Transformational Technologies
54. Summary of Gold Plants and Processes
55. Emerging and Transformational Gold Processing Technologies

Über Autor(innen)

Adams, Mike D.
Mike Adams is an experienced metallurgist and applied chemist with over 30 years in the minerals industry, covering management of a variety of bankable-level pilot test work projects, resource process development projects and metallurgical laboratories. He is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed papers, editor of two books (including Advances in Gold Ore Processing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005) and serves on the Editorial Board of the international journals Minerals Engineering (2002-present) and Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review (1994-2001). He is currently Associate Editor with Hydrometallurgy Journal (2013-present).