URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/39B8BED6-D198-49F4-86E3-E2E77EA4C10F | - |
Γλώσσα | en | - |
Μέγεθος | 6 pages | en |
Τίτλος | Developments in gold recovery equipment and their use in Greece | en |
Δημιουργός | Manoutsoglou Emmanouil | en |
Δημιουργός | Μανουτσογλου Εμμανουηλ | el |
Δημιουργός | Stamboliadis, Elias | en |
Δημιουργός | Pantelaki ,O | en |
Περίληψη | Gravity separation techniques were used in the
early years to extract native metal nuggets and
flakes from placer gold deposits. This was
relatively easy for visible metal grains. As the
size of the grain becomes smaller traditional
gravity separation techniques become
inadequate to recover native gold. Cyanidation
was invented as a solution to the problem.
According to it, gold and other precious metals
are dissolved in water by sodium cyanide. The
result was a drastic increase of world gold
production but at the same time environmental
issues were raised. In Greece gold mining has
become equivalent with the absolute destruction
of the environment and is under extinction.
In the last years a new type of gravity
equipment have been produced which create a
gravitational field up to 200 G and can separate
gold from gangue minerals at sizes below 50
μm. The strong gravitational field is created by
centrifugal forces and the separation occurs in a
fluidized bed, formed by water flow.
Accumulations of finely disseminated native
gold are found in the sedimentary sequence of
the Flysch of the Ionian Zone. The main gold
minerals are gold and electrum present as free
metal flakes and micro nuggets in the size range
between 5-250 μm. Test work, using the Falcon
SB40 centrifugal concentrator, at the
Department of Mineral Resources Engineering
at the Technical University of Crete, has shown
that this particular type of gold ore can be
processed by gravitational methods that require
no reagents and are environmentally safe. | en |
Τύπος | Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο | el |
Τύπος | Conference Full Paper | en |
Άδεια Χρήσης | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
Ημερομηνία | 2015-10-31 | - |
Ημερομηνία Δημοσίευσης | 2003 | - |
Θεματική Κατηγορία | Gold recovery | en |
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά | E. Stamboliadis , E. Manutsoglu , O. Pantelaki ," Developments in gold recovery equipment and their use in Greece," in Conference Sustainable Development Indicators in the Mineral Industries ,2003,pp. 329-334. | en |