The process design of gold leaching and carboninpulp
The carbon in the reactor into which pregnant pulp is fed (referred to as the first reactor) becomes highly loaded with gold. Loaded carbon values on operating plants range from 300 to 20 000 grams of gold per ton of carbon, a concentrating factor of about 1 0001 500. A portion of the loaded carbon is periodically removed from the first adsorption reactor.