Ore processing – Waihi Gold
The barren slurry, now known as tailings, is pumped to the tailings storage facility (5). In contrast, by the time the carbon reaches the first adsorption tank it has recovered most of the gold and silver from solution. This 'loaded' carbon is then pumped to the elution circuit (6) where the gold and silver is washed off with superheated water. The washed solution, called pregnant eluate ...