Vol. 2 No. 2 (2010), SECTION C: ENGINEERING
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2010)

Development of activated carbons magnetic for the recovery of gold in cyanide solutions

SECTION C: ENGINEERING
Published 2010-06-01
Gustavo Muñoz Rivadeneira
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Portada Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías Volumen 2 - Número 2 2010

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Keywords

Activated carbons
magnetic
gold recovery

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Muñoz Rivadeneira, G. (2010). Development of activated carbons magnetic for the recovery of gold in cyanide solutions. ACI Avances En Ciencias E Ingenierías, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v2i2.34
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Abstract

Activated Carbons owe its adsorptive properties to their highly developed porous structu­re. As a result, activated carbons have extensive specific surface areas. Currently, granular activated carbons produced from coconut shells are widely used for gold recovery from alkaline cyanide solutions. Magnetic activated carbons (MACs) for gold recovery, synthesized from sources different that the traditional ones, have been developed at the University of Utah, mixing a carbon source with a magnetic precursor, and putting the mixture under controlled conditions of temperature and gaseous phase composition. This document con­tains fundamental aspects and preliminary experimental results during the development of magnetic activated carbons.

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