Leaching Equipment
Percolation Heap leaching, (see Mular et al. pp. 1571–1630, loc. cit.) is very widely applied to the ores of copper and precious metals, but percolation is also conducted on a smaller scale in batch tanks or vats and in continuous or dump extractors. In the heap leaching of lowgrade oxidized gold ores, for instance, a dilute alkaline solution of sodium cyanide is distributed over a heap of ...