CYANIDE USAGE IN EXTRACTION OF GOLD
HISTORY OF GOLD ORE PROCESSING 1700 to early 1900''s – Mostly alluvial gold – Gold pans, sluice boxes and mercury amalgamation • Late 1800''s to mid1900''s – Cyanidation Invented – Depletion of alluvial gold – Increase in hard rock gold mining – Processing evolved towards cyanidation, although mercury still 4 used in