An underexploited invisible gold resource in the Archean sulphides of the Witwatersrand tailings dumps
Abstract The tailings dumps originating from gold mining in South Africa’s Witwatersrand still contain notable gold endowments. Most tailings reprocessing operations target a native gold fraction using re-milling and carbon-in-leach extraction; however, up to 50–70% of the remaining gold is still no...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-02-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30219-5 |