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Offline Arkcon

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Re: Extracting Gold, Silver, Copper from ore
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2008, 11:16:13 AM »
Free metallic copper, which is occasionally found native, (you will have to check, perhaps microscopically, in your particular ore sample) only reacts with hot concentrated nitric, and evolves many nitrogen oxides, not just NO2 (and it's equally nasty nasty partner N2O2) but even N2O (hey, no fooling around, you have lots of work to do).  The safe way to dissolve copper is with sulfuric and oxygen.  For certain definitions of the word, "safe."

More important, can you see another, quantitative problem with your switch?
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Re: Extracting Gold, Silver, Copper from ore
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2008, 11:17:34 AM »
I would first determine if the ore is an oxide or a sulphide? In commercial applications oxides tend to be leached with sulfuric acid and sulphides with cyanide before it goes through the circuit.

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Re: Extracting Gold, Silver, Copper from ore
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2008, 07:28:14 PM »
goldrefiningforum.com has all the info and explains how to do these processes

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