PROCESSING

New approaches in gold recovery

Much of the world’s gold is in the form of free-milling and alluvial gold. Gold has a high density, about 20 times higher than water, which means that free gold can be economically recovered by a myriad of gravity processes such as jigs, tables, sluices, and centrifugal devices. It is generally accepted that the size of such particles should be greater than several hundred microns to be efficient