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cyanide process

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cyanide process
n.
A process of extracting gold or silver from ores by treating them with a solution of sodium cyanide or calcium cyanide.
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Noun1.cyanide process - an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution
industrial process - a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something


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Ore material previously processed from the Heva mine had demonstrated that this deposit does not have problems related to the presence of arsenopyrite and has a gold recovery rate of 97 per cent to 99 per cent by cyanide process.
Ore material previously processed from the Heva mine has demonstrated that this deposit does not have problems related to the presence of arsenopyrite and has a gold recovery rate of 97 per cent to 99 per cent by cyanide process.
These advantages allow users of the HGP process a significant cost savings over the cyanide process.
 
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