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A leach pile at the Viceroy gold mine in Nevada. Hoses drip sodium cyanide onto crushed ore, loosening gold from the rock on a microscopic level. The gold is then sorted out through carbon filtration and electrowinning.
Keywords
- carbon filtration
- crushed
- drip
- electrowinning
- Gold
- hoses
- leach pile
- loose
- Microscopic
- Nevada
- ore
- Rock
- sodium cyanide
- Viceroy gold mine
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