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CYANIDE MANAGEMENT

outlines practices for cyanide management from a risk management perspective and presents a number of case studies highlighting strategies that are currently being …

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Cyanide contamination of soil and water: Sources, toxicity, …

2.1. Global environmental cyanide. Cyanide is a toxic chemical compound with serious environmental and health impacts. Although cyanide occurs naturally in some plant species and is produced by some industrial processes, it is primarily used in mining operations to extract gold and other precious metals (Rao et al., 2020).Given the high …

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Alternatives to cyanide in the gold mining industry: what prospects for

The debate surrounding the use of cyanide in the mining industry has fuelled considerable investigation into the development of more environmentally benign alternatives. For over 100 years, cyanide has featured prominently as a leach reagent at gold mines because of its high efficiency and relatively low cost. Although Hagen first …

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JV Article: Dundee's cyanide-free tech cuts gold

It's focusing on eliminating the use of cyanide and separating arsenic while achieving improved gold recovery. It has more than 50 patents in about 15 countries.

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Cyanide Facts | The Cyanide Code

Cyanide is manufactured and distributed for use in the gold and silver mining industries in a variety of physical and chemical forms, including solid briquettes, flake cyanide and liquid cyanide. Sodium cyanide is supplied as either briquettes or liquid, while calcium cyanide is supplied in flake form and also in liquid form.

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Can gold miners say 'sayonara' to cyanide?

A highly toxic chemical that can be dangerous to humans and wildlife, cyanide use at gold mining operations provokes concern in many jurisdictions. In fact, it was in response to a damaging spill from a tailings pond in Romania in 2000 that released 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide contaminated water into the Somes River, that the …

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Cyanide to glycine: Technology reducing use of cyanide in mining

According to the ICMC, the concentration of cyanide used in commercial gold extraction ranges between 0.01% and 0.05%, and no harm has been indicated in such concentrations for over a hundred years. Spills or accidents of cyanide poisoning generally occur when companies fail to comply to regulatory standards, or disregard operational …

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Alternatives to cyanide in the gold mining industry: what …

The debate surrounding the use of cyanide in the mining industry has fuelled considerable investigation into the development of more environmentally benign alternatives. For over 100 years, cyanide has featured prominently as a leach reagent at gold mines because of its high efficiency and relatively low cost. Although Hagen first …

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Cyanide in Gold Mining. And why it's a problem.

For example, Barrick Gold Co. — one of the largest gold mining companies in the world — was required to invest a surplus of nearly $500 million in 2018 to compensate for 3 cyanide spills in 3 ...

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Cyanide and removal options from effluents in gold mining …

Although the use of cyanide is mostly perceived by the general public as being associated with the mining and metallurgical processes, only about 13% of world cyanide production is consumed by these industries with the remaining percentage being used elsewhere (WHO ECEH, 2000, Mudder and Botz, 2001, Mudder et al., 2001a, …

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Cyanide contamination of soil and water: Sources, toxicity, …

Cyanide is a silent killer present in high concentrations in mine waste tailings, generating carbon monoxide and other cyanogenic compounds. Nevertheless, it is a …

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Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and …

Three exposure groups were included: (i) miners using cyanide; (ii) miners who do not use cyanide; and (iii) ASGM community members not directly involved in mining. A questionnaire was administered to all study participants, followed by a finger prick blood sample to determine blood lactate level as a proxy indicator for cyanide …

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Experimental analysis on cyanide removal of gold tailings

The cyanide content of gold tailings exceeds the standard seriously due to the cyanide extraction process. In order to improve the resource utilization efficiency of gold tailings, a medium ...

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INTERNATIONAL CYANIDE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE

The Mining Verification Protocol and this Mining Guidance for its use apply to the management of cyanide at gold and silver mining operations. As defined in the ode's Definitions and Acronyms document, "gold and silver mining" means an "activity using cyanide to leach gold

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Cyanide hazards to plants and animals from gold mining …

Cyanide extraction of gold through milling of high-grade ores and heap leaching of low-grade ores requires cycling of millions of liters of alkaline water containing high concentrations of potentially toxic sodium cyanide (NaCN), free cyanide, and metal-cyanide complexes. ... When mining operations cease, and the water pumps are …

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MPC Fact Sheet: Cyanide

Cyanide is a toxic metal ion used in mining to extract gold, silver and other metals. The fact sheet explains how cyanide works, its effects on living organisms, and the dangers …

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Chemicals Used in Mining

Mining companies say that cyanide in water quickly becomes harmless. But this is true only when there is lots of sunlight and oxygen. Even then it leaves behind other harmful chemicals. If cyanide is spilled underground, or if the weather is cloudy or rainy, it can remain harmful for a long time, killing fish and plants along rivers and making ...

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Risk management approach for cyanides

Sodium cyanide (NaCN; CAS RN 143-33-9) is used mainly as an extraction agent for precious metals (for example, gold, silver) and to a lesser degree for base metals, and as a result, free cyanide and precursors of free cyanide may be released in the effluent of metal mining facilities that use it.

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INTERNATIONAL CYANIDE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE

There also are two uses of cyanide at mines that are not evaluated under the Verification Protocol. Management of cyanide used in laboratories is not addressed …

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Cyanides in the environment—analysis—problems and challenges

Cyanides in the environment—analysis—problems and ...

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Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and small …

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119689 Corpus ID: 212891681; Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Burkina Faso @article{Knoblauch2020PotentialHE, title={Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Burkina Faso}, author={Astrid M. Knoblauch …

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Regulations on Cyanide Use in Gold Mining

The Cyanide Code After the Aural Mine spill in Romania, an international group of stakeholders created the International Cyanide Management Code for the Manufacture, Transport and Use of Cyanide in the Production of Gold (Cyanide Code).. An independent third party assesses a company's compliance with the Cyanide Code in a publicly …

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Environmental Impacts of Gold Mining

It pollutes water and land with mercury and cyanide, endangering the health of people and ecosystems. Producing gold for one wedding ring alone generates 20 tons of waste. Poisoned Waters. Gold mining can have devastating effects on nearby water resources. Toxic mine waste contains as many as three dozen dangerous chemicals including: …

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Cyanide | OceanaGold

Together with its historic use up to 1952, the Waihi mining operations have used cyanide since modern operations began in 1988. A substantial database spanning more than 20 years of modern use demonstrates that cyanide can be transported, stored, used and disposed of in a safe manner, with no significant adverse effects on the environment.

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Leadville mining waste cleanup plan sparks concern over use of cyanide

A company in Leadville wants to truck 1.2 million tons of mining waste to a mill on the edge of town, use cyanide to extract gold and silver from the rocks, then return the hills to a more natural …

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Newmont's Approach to Responsible Cyanide Management

At Newmont, safe and responsible cyanide management is fundamental to our operations. Cyanide is used in the mining process to dissolve and separate gold from ore. Gold extraction through this method is currently the safest, most effective and economical technique in mining, and proper cyanide management is essential in …

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The Cyanide Code

The Cyanide Code is a voluntary program that sets standards and principles for the safe use of cyanide in gold and silver mining. It covers the production, transport, handling, …

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The Safe and Effective Use of Cyanide

Learn how cyanide is used to recover gold from ore and how the mining industry ensures its safe and effective use and disposal. Find out about the cyanide leach process, the …

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New hazard alert on cyanide use in mining operations

"The goal of these new tools is to talk about the potential dangers linked to cyanide use in mining," says Judit Nelson, WSN Industrial Hygiene Specialist. "The plan is to teach workers, communities, and industry about the risks of cyanide and how to lower the chances of being exposed to it." Getting to know cyanide in mining

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Environmental Health and Safety Hazards of Indigenous …

This is because cyanide has a very short half-life, and blood samples are rarely obtained within a short period of time. The most widely employed mining technique in the area is called dog hole mining, which is a tedious and hazardous process. This type of SSGM involves several subprocesses: (1) tunneling, (2) ball milling and gravity ...

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Barrick cuts cyanide by 80% by adding glycine leach for

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX: NYSE: GOLD) and Draslovka have achieved their goal – an 80% reduction in cyanide use by adding the GlyCat technology to the processing plant.

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Cyanide Hazards to Plants and Animals from Gold Mining …

Highly toxic sodium cyanide (NaCN) is used by the international mining community to extract gold and other precious metals through milling of high-grade ores and heap leaching of low-grade ores (Korte et al. 2000). The process to concentrate gold using cyanide was...

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Cyanide and removal options from effluents in gold mining …

Cyanide is often added as a depressant in the flotation of base metal sulphide ores (e.g., iron and copper). Because of its ability to selectively dissolve gold and silver from their ores, the recovery of gold and silver is often associated with cyanide use. Iron cyanide is often used as an anti-caking agent in both table and road salts.

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The cyanide revolution: Efficiency gains and exclusion in …

Similarly, cyanide use is restricted in Indonesia under Government Regulation No. 101 of 2014 on Management of Hazardous and Toxic Waste and Law No. 32 of 2009 on Environmental Protection and Management. While cyanide can legally be used in these countries, including in (but not limited to) the mining industry, its use is …

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A Gold Industry Success Story

The event followed a series of previous accidents in the 1990s involving cyanide that also made international news, including major releases of cyanide-containing solutions at mines in the United States, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan. These had already sensitized public opinion to the use of cyanide in the gold mining industry.

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Potential health effects of cyanide use in artisanal and small …

Three exposure groups were included: (i) miners using cyanide; (ii) miners who do not use cyanide; and (iii) ASGM community members not directly involved in mining. A questionnaire was administered to all study participants, followed by a finger prick blood sample to determine blood lactate level as a proxy indicator for cyanide …

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