Aeon13
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Good day to all! I am new to gold refining and other gold processing techniques. Thanks to this forum and members I have learned a lot already with just a short time. I would like to show you guys the processing of gold ores used by my uncle. They extract these ores from the mountains, grind it then leach it with cyanide. This is how they do it. They put these ground ore into the first stage (leaching) and wait for the liquid going to the second stage which contains the liquid gold. This second stage is then pumped to a container but first they will mix zinc powder prior to it.Then a filter is placed on the container to recover the powder which has gold in it . The liquid at the container is then pumped back to the first stage. They do this process for about 6-7 cycles. Then they get the filtered material for smelting.
Do you guys have any opinion on how to improve this system that they use? My uncle and his colleagues are small scale miners. It breaks my heart to see the things they do to get these ores. Specially the way they go inside the portal with just a blower used to supply oxygen inside. There has been death related to oxygen depletion while inside these portals . These portals range from 100-500 meters as of today. They also don't have any support placed in these portals. They know the risk yet they do it to live. I want to help them by maximizing the amount of gold that they may recover. This is the reason for me joining and posting here. I know that people here are kind and helpful. I read many topics already here by the way. I just did't find a complete process which looks like my uncle's set up. I will post the actual pictures once I have the time to visit them again.
Thanks in advance. More power and Godbless.
Do you guys have any opinion on how to improve this system that they use? My uncle and his colleagues are small scale miners. It breaks my heart to see the things they do to get these ores. Specially the way they go inside the portal with just a blower used to supply oxygen inside. There has been death related to oxygen depletion while inside these portals . These portals range from 100-500 meters as of today. They also don't have any support placed in these portals. They know the risk yet they do it to live. I want to help them by maximizing the amount of gold that they may recover. This is the reason for me joining and posting here. I know that people here are kind and helpful. I read many topics already here by the way. I just did't find a complete process which looks like my uncle's set up. I will post the actual pictures once I have the time to visit them again.
Thanks in advance. More power and Godbless.