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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1994

Filed:

Jan. 05, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:

Alfred S Hayden, Richmond Hill, CA;

Christopher A Fleming, Peterborough, CA;

Chandulal P Patel, West Vancouver, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204110 ; 423 25 ; 423 27 ; 423 29 ; 423 33 ;
Abstract

Increased efficiency of extraction of silver and gold from ore materials thereof containing active carbonaceous material is obtained by conducting the extraction in two stages. In a first stage a portion of the silver and of the gold when present is extracted in a cyanide leach solution. The leached solids residue is contacted with activated carbon so that the silver and the gold when present are adsorbed on the activated carbon at elevated temperature (most preferably at about 35.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C.). In a modification, a slurry of the ore material is treated with cyanide and the precious metal adsorbed directly from the cyanided slurry with activated carbon at elevated temperature up to about 70.degree. C.


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