Gold Ore Processing

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).

• 1. Gold – An Historical IntroductionPart I. Project DevelopmentEconomic Evaluation of Gold Projects2. Overview of the Gold Mining Industry and Major Gold Deposits3. Evaluation and Funding of Capital Projects in MiningFeasibility Study Management4. Sampling Procedures5. Mineralogical Investigation of Gold Ores6. Geometallurgical Characterization and Automated Mineralogy of Gold Ores7. Process Flowsheet Selection8. Metallurgical Test Work: Gold Processing Options, Physical Ore Properties, and Cyanide Management9. Process Simulation and Modeling10. Feasibility Study Plant DesignCommissioning11. CommissioningSafety, Process Control and Environmental Management12. The International Cyanide Management Code: Ensuring Best Practice in the Gold Industry13. Approaches to Cyanide Code Compliance for Tailings Storage Facilities14. Process ControlClosure and Rehabilitation15. Closure and Rehabilitation of Gold-Processing Plants16. Closure and Rehabilitation of Gold Mines with a Focus on Tailings Storage FacilitiesPart II. Unit OperationsComminution and Solid-LiquidSeparation17. Comminution Circuits for Gold Ore Processing18. Liquid–Solid Separation in Gold ProcessingConcentration19. Advances in Gravity Gold Technology20. Flotation of Gold and Gold-Bearing OresOxidation of Sulfide Ores and Concentrates21. Pressure Oxidation Overview22. Bacterial Oxidation of Refractory Gold Concentrates23. Roasting Developments – Especially Oxygenated Roasting24. Roasting of Gold Ore in the Circulating Fluidized-Bed TechnologyLeaching25. Heap Leaching of Gold and Silver Ores26. Advances in the Cyanidation of Gold27. Alternative Lixiviants to Cyanide for Leaching Gold Ores28. Thiosulfate as an Alternative Lixiviant to Cyanide for Gold Ores29. Chloride as an Alternative Lixiviant to Cyanide for Gold OresGold Recovery30. Carbon-in-Pulp31. Zinc Cementation32. Resin-in-Pulp and Resin-in-Solution33. Electrowinning34. Refining of Gold- and Silver-Bearing DoréDisposal of Residues35. Cyanide Treatment: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes36. Cyanide Recovery37. Tailings Storage Facilities38. Water Management in Gold Ore Processing39. Retreatment of Gold Residues40. Practical Considerations in the Hydro Re-Mining of Gold Tailings41. Developments in Arsenic Management in the Gold Industry42. Mercury in Gold ProcessingPart III. Case Study FlowsheetsPolymetallic Ores43. Gold-Copper Ores44. Case Study Flowsheets: Copper–Gold Concentrate Treatment45. Processing of High-Silver Gold Ores46. Recovery of Gold as By-Product from the Base-Metals Industries47. Extraction of Gold from Platinum Group Metal OresRefractory Ores48. Refractory Sulfide Ores—Case Studies49. Preg-Robbing Gold Ores50. Double-Refractory Carbonaceous Sulfidic Gold Ores51. Treatment of Gold–Telluride Ores52. Treatment of Antimonial Gold OresOther Gold-Bearing Materials53. Gold – A Key Enabler of a Circular Economy: Recycling of Waste Electric and Electronic EquipmentSummary of Gold Plants and Processes, Emerging and Transformational Technologies54. Summary of Gold Plants and Processes55. Emerging and Transformational Gold Processing Technologies