Losses in Gold Amalgamation: With Notes on the Concentration of Gold and Silver Ores

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Spon, 1890 - 98 páginas
 

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Página 78 - tellurides of the baser metals, the pan process becomes ineffective and expensive. By contact with iron surfaces, heat, and the addition of some chemicals—chiefly salt and sulphate of copper—a partial decomposition of the complex minerals is effected, and some of the silver amalgamated; but the wear of iron, loss of
Página 78 - partial decomposition of the complex minerals is effected, and some of the silver amalgamated; but the wear of iron, loss of quicksilver, cost of power and chemicals, and the production of base bullion, together go far to
Página 28 - for allowing contact with the quicksilver ; besides involving often a loss of gold in the actual roasting, sometimes even to a very marked extent. In roasting some gold ores it is found advantageous to add a small percentage of salt to the charge, but on other ores this increases largely the loss of gold by
Página 27 - amalgamation, the next simplest and most economical process is that of pan amalgamation, which is adopted either on the raw or roasted ore. Usually roasting of gold ores is unsatisfactory as a preparation for amalgamation, and puts part of the gold in a condition most
Página 42 - ores and concentrates can, as a safe general rule, be considered as not adapted to amalgamation without a previous roasting. In some few cases, where the gold is comparatively coarse, a sufficient proportion of it can be extracted by
Página 43 - Works gave unsatisfactory results by all these processes after roasting in a small reverberatory furnace, and nothing but chlorination was found effective when the material was rich in gold. On
Página 77 - Pan amalgamation is effective chiefly on native gold, native silver, chloride of silver, and simple sulphide of silver. When the silver is in combination with sulphides, antimonides, arsenides, and

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