Abstract:
There are many different gold extraction techniques that have been employed worldwide but
however they are effective to some degrees because of their operational difficulties, diverse
effects on the environment and people, complicated industrial setup which calls for
alternatives.
Bamboo's ability to produce cyanogenic glycosides can be used because gold cyanidation is
straightforward and has a high gold dissolving efficiency.
Gold ore samples of low concentration obtained from Tiira gold field were used. The
Bamboo cyanide co
ncentration of 3091.88ppm, from the Bamboo type was also used in the study.
The laboratory tests showed that cyanide obtained from crushing 2kg of cassava, was able to
leached 61.6% of gold at pH of 10-12, contact time of 24hours and at room temperature.
