By Shane Lasley
Metal Tech News
Canada invests in cyanide recycling tech
Program aims to make gold mining more sustainable, efficient Metal Tech News Weekly Edition – August 12, 2020
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Last updated 7/10/2022 at 2:45pm
Hecla Mining Company
Hecla Mining's Casa Berardi Mine is among the operations in Quebec that use cyanide as part of the gold recovery process.
In its ongoing support of a clean, sustainable, and competitive mining sector, the Canadian government is investing C$2.1 million into a project to recover and recycle cyanide after the chemical is used to recover gold from mined ore.
Cyanide is a chemical compound used to recover gold by dissolving the metal into a solution that is run through processes that extract the dissolved gold. The l...
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