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Mine Processing Plant, Gold

Flowsheet for gold mine, showing crushing and screening of

ore to be fed leached on Heap Leach.

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Mine truck dumps ore on leach pad. Impermeable lining will

prevent any leach liquid from penetrating ground. Monitor wells
around the leach pad perimeter are continuously monitored to
assure no leakage occurs. Leach pipes can be seen in the
background on right.

More material is placed on leach pad.

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Photo of Heap Leach. A dilute cyanide-water solution is

pumped through the series of plastic hose with sprays or drip
emitters placed throughout the pile, and solution runs through
the leach, dissolving gold. Pregnant solution (gold bearing
solution) runs from the pile in the drainage pipes or ditches,
and is collected in a series of ponds. The leach area is lined
with several impermeable liners, primary and secondary liners,
to prevent the possibility of any solution escaping into the
ground. Monitoring wells are stratagically placed and
continuously monitored to be certain that no leakage has
occurred.

The Pregnant Solution Pond, collecting the liquid from the

leach pad. In this case, it is cyanide water solution with gold
dissolved in it.

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