Processing centres in artisanal gold mining ScienceDirect
The processing centres use a crude grind to liberate fine gold particles before processing negatively affecting gold recovery They use rudimentary methods to concentrate the gold or they simply amalgamate the whole ore using copper amalgamating plates Fig 1 or they grind the ore with mercury in small ball mills The amalgamation of the
Potential pre treatment and processing routes for
Complex gold ore Sustainable beneficiation processing conventional treatment 1 Introduction Gold is a noble metal with excellent physical and chemical properties and is therefore found in nature in its pure metallic form Adams 2016 However the rapid depletion of amenable gold ores has alert researchers to come up with effective