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Increasing environmental and occupational safety concerns about the use of cyanide in gold processing has increased interest in more acceptable alternative lixiviants, the most promising of which is thiosulfate. However, the thiosulfate process lacks a proven inpulp method of recovering the dissolved gold because activated carbon is not effective for the absorption of the gold-thiosulfate complex. This paper describes work aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of commercially available anion exchange resins for the recovery of gold from thiosulfate leach liquors and pulps.
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Nicol, M.J., O’Malley, G. Recovering gold from thiosulfate leach pulps via ion exchange. JOM 54, 44–46 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02709221
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