Much ado on gold market
At the conference after the opening of a hot leaching shop at the Suzdal mine, general director of Nordgold Nikolai Zelensky has told about development of the company in Kazakhstan, as well as the plans for the near future, and about his vision of the dynamics of world prices for gold.
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On June 8, Nordgold launched the hot leaching shop to extract gold from technological waste of the Suzdal deposit in Kazakhstan, investment in the project amounted to $5.8 million.
The Outotec’s technology of alkali treatment at high temperature enables to increase the rate of extraction of gold from double refractory ores. Both historical and future Suzdal technological waste of the CIL-process (CIL - carbon-in-leach) - more than 130 thousand tons per year – can be processed. Approximately 195 tons of process waste from the current process will come every day to hot leaching, and the same volume - from tailings, said rotational technologist of the metallurgical plant Zhangazin Kurmangazy.
