Efficiency and Recovery for Gold Plants
Overview
The challenges faced by typical gold plants include declining head grades, challenging ore types, poor process control and instrumentation, and therefore are often deriving low margins. Process IQ can assist in recovery and efficiency of a gold plant by improving the following:
Improved recovery:
- Optimising Leach Kinetics: CN/DO ratio, pH, agitation/mixing, carbon adsorption – reduced soluble gold losses and residence time
- Optimising Process Control: control of CN concentration to setpoint, reject disturbances, improve carbon movement, improve detox: reduce WAD CN in tails and improve operation of leach feed & tails thickeners (density, reagent & flocculent control)
Improved efficiency:
- Reduced carbon attrition
- Reduced cyanide consumption
- Reduced DO losses
Metallurgical Reviews
Process IQ offers metallurgical test work reviews covering Cyanide Detox Efficiency reviews and Gold Leach Kinetics Studies.
Process Control
LeachStar Advanced Process Control (APC) improves gold plant efficiency and recovery through robust strategies for:
- Leach feed control / Thickener stabilisation and optimisation
- Leaching control: Cyanide concentration, pH, DO
- Carbon management by optimising carbon transfer
- Detox control: WAD Cyanide concentration
LeachStar APC not only reduces gold and carbon losses, but also saves the plant up to 20% on reagent consumption.
Improvements through our VIP Platform
Process IQ has developed a systematic approach to solving complex problems through the VIP (Value Invention Process) Platform. The VIP Platform comprises of hardware and software facilities that assist and support applications for our clients using the internet or on-site network to connect devices and equipment.

Advanced Process Control
LeachStar – Advanced Process Control to reduce cyanide consumption and carbon losses

Online Cyanide Measurement
Cynoprobe – fast online measurement of Free and WAD Cyanide

Carbon Measurement
C2 Meter – continuous carbon concentration intank measurement with no moving parts

Density Measurement
Ultrasonic Density Probe – pulp density measurement in cells
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Process IQ Pty Ltd
Unit 1 / 23 Gibberd Road Balcatta
WA 6021 Western Australia
Tel: +61 (0) 8 9240 4357
Fax: +61 (0) 8 6316 0486
Email: info@processiq.com.au
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