OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study aimed at the environmental health hazards at work and cyanide exposure of small-scale gold miners engaged in gold extraction from ores in a mining area in the Philippines. METHODS Methods consisted of structured questionnaire-guided interviews, work process observation tools, physical health assessment by medical doctors, and laboratory examination and bl...

The work aimed to develop a rational technology for processing ore from the Yoshlik deposit, taking into account solution of issues integrated use mineral raw materials and environmental protection, development technological scheme. To enrich combined gravity-flotation scheme was recommended, followed by sorption cyanidation pyrite concentrate. According results research on sample it revealed t...

Abstract Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) utilizes mercury (Hg) for the extraction of (Au) is responsible largest anthropogenic source emissions releases Hg to environment. Previous estimates use in ASGM have varied widely. In this effort, losses were derived from difference between total Au production reported by conventional mining. On basis result, average ratio lost produced was...

however, the conventional gold recovery process is cyanidation, due to the recent environmental laws; researchers are looking for alternative methods for the recovery of gold. furthermore, the copper anode slime is one of the most important secondary sources of gold (about 1200 ppm). so, the main objective of the current work is gold separation from copper anode slime as a rich secondary source...

This study investigates the optimization of gold dissolution from Aghdarre ore. Therefore, a laboratory investigation was initiated, to improve the leaching conditions with the objective of maximizing mill capacity with no reduction on gold recovery. It was observed that the time reduction from 25 to 15 hours did not change the gold recovery. In the other words, it indicated that a capacity of ...