Gold Recovery 101
Figure 1: Traditional freemilling gold process Blasted rocks from the mine are crushed to less than one inch (25 mm) before being fed to a ball or SAG mill. The discharge from the mill is pumped to a cyclone for classifiion. Hydrocyclones separate the particles based on their size and density with the fine, light particles reporting to the cyclone overflow (COF) and the coarser and denser ...