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Sodium cyanide

Sodium cyanide now is the chemical of choice in the gold mining industry throughout the world and mining is the main sodium cyanide consumer worldwide, with **0 **0 tonnes annually.More than *0% of the ***0 tons of annual global gold production is extracted using this chemical. The cyanide waste that is left over after gold processing is stored in large ponds. It is not unusual to have spills of the cyanide solution and the heavy metal-laced waters stored in the pond
 

Complex Chemical Behavior

The general term “cyanide” refers to various compounds which belong to the CN chemical element. Several plants, some soil bacteria produce natural cyanide and related compounds.Because cyanide is carbon based—an organic compound—it reacts readily with other carbon-based substances; including living organisms. Despite this complexity, regulators generally require that mine operators monitor for only three categories of cyanide: free cyanide, weak-acid-dissociable (WAD) cyanide, and total cyanide.


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