Precious Metals: 

Mining, Extraction, and Processing

The Metallurgical Society of AIME

1983 - 621 Pages

Contents:

• Gold
  
• The Value of Platinum Metals Recovery
• The Use of Cyclical Analysis as a Forecasting Too For Precious Metals
• A Techno-Economic Assesment for the Recovery of Several Chemical Elements from Seawater to Brine
• Precious Metals in Time and Place - A Geological Overview
• Brush Plating goes to the Top

Sampling and Ore Evaluation

• General Consideration in the Sampling of Precious Metal Ores
  
• Sampling of a Coarse Gold Deposit
• Trace Silver Analyses by Proton Microprobe in Ore Evaluation
• The Metallurgy of the Precious Metals as Affected by their Mineralogy and Manner of Occurrence in their Ores
• Recent Evaluation of Sart Placer Gold Deposit

Chemistry of Leaching and Recovery

• Carbonaceous Matter in Gold Ores: Isolation, Characterization, and Adsorption Behavior in Aurocyanide Solutions
  
• A Kinetic Study of the Leaching of Gold from Pyrite Concentrate Using Acidified Thiourea
• Solution Chemistry of Cyanide Leaching Systems
• Solvent Extraction of Precious  Metals with Organic Amines
• A Study of Gold and Mercury Adsorption form a Cyanide Leach Solution by Ion Exchange
• The Stability of Arsenic in Gold Mine Processing Wastes

Electrolytic Recovery

• Precious Metal Alloy Electrodeposits
  
• Cell Design for Electrolytic Silver Recovery from Various Dilute Aqueous Solutions
• Electrowinning of Silver from Cyanide Leach solution fo Bupyung Silver Mine
• Utilization fo Radiationi Grafted Structures for Electrolytic Recovery of Precious Metals
• High Purity Silver Powders

Ore Processing

• The Treatment of Refractory Gold-Bearing Flotation Concentrates Using Pressure Leaching Techniques
• Recovery of Gold and Silver from Arseniferous Pyrite Cinders
• Recovery of Gold from Aresenical Ores
• Gold Extraction from Refractory Ores: Roasting Behavior of Pyrite and Arsenopyrite
• Recovery of Gold and Silver from Ores by Hydrometallurgical Processing
• Hydrometallurgical Processing of Silver Concentrates
• Precious Development for a Gold/Silver Mining-Milling Project
• Selection of the Process Flowsheet for the Mercur Gold Plant

Recycling and ByProduct Recovery

• Development of a Process to Seperate the Metal Values from Dental Amalgam Scrap
  
• Recovery of PGM from Automobile Catalytic Converters
• Future Opportunities in the Reclamation fo Precious Metals from Major Sources of Absolete Scrap
• Recovery of Selenium from Electrolytic Copper Refinery Slimes
• New Sumitomo Process for Gold Recovery from Copper Anode Slimes
• Selenium and Precious Metals Recovery form Copper Anode Slimes at Outokumpu Pori Refinery

Physical Metallurgy

• Hi-Temperature Oxidation of Platinum Metals
• The Effect of Cycling on the Oxidation Kinetics of Palladium Powder
• Investment Casting of Gold Jewellery Alloys
• Solid Solubility of Oxygen in Palladium
• The Silver-Cerium System