cyanide process
a process for extracting gold or silver from ore by dissolving the ore in an alkaline solution of sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide and precipitating the gold or silver from the solution.
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Including the most recent Improvements in the cyanide process.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob BeringerThe dirt is now treated by what is termed the cyanide process.
Seven Legs Across the Seas | Samuel MurrayJack was no longer Jack, but a mixture of Alington, deep levels, and cyanide process.
Mammon and Co. | E. F. BensonAgain the milling results were not good, and what it demanded was the cyanide process.
The Plunderer | Roy NortonThe improved dioxide cyanide process was adopted about 1895.
British Dictionary definitions for cyanide process
a process for recovering gold and silver from ores by treatment with a weak solution of sodium cyanide: Also called: cyaniding
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