Predicting Cyanide Consumption in Gold Leaching: A
Gold is mainly extracted from its ores or concentrates by leaching with oxygenated cyanide solutions [1,2].Cyanide consumption during leaching, and the discharge of excess cyanide in wastewater, respectively constitute major economic [3,4] and environmental [] costs in the gold losses in the leaching stage mainly occur via the action of cyanicides: minerals, such as the