Kuala Lipis goldat

Penjom Gold Mine

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Gold Extraction ProcessCyanide Process

• Cyanide extraction of gold may be used in areas where fine-gold bearing rocks are found.

• Sodium cyanide solution is mixed with finely-ground rock that is proven to contain gold and/or silver, and is then separated from the ground rock as gold cyanide and/or silver cyanide solution.

• Zinc is added to the solution, precipitating out residual zinc, as well as the desirable silver and gold metals.

• The zinc is removed with sulfuric acid, leaving a silver and/or gold sludge that is generally smelted into an ingot then shipped to a metals refinery for final processing into 99.9999% pure metals

• From wikipedia

Adverse Effect

• Cyanide dumped into rivers as a result of gold mining can have adverse effects on a river's ecosystem.

• Lead as a byproduct can have adverse effects on human health, as illustrated by the case of northern Nigeria, where 163 people were killed by lead poisoning in early 2010 as a result of illegal gold mining.

• The Sulpride Acid Used Can cause bad effects.• From wikipedia

Kuala Lipis Gold MineViewed From Satelite

The Scar of Destructionor The Traces of Development?

Columns of Lorries To Transport The Raw Earth Containing Minute Gold

To a Machine That Breaks the Earth to Smaller Masses

To much Smaller Pieces

Final Extraction Using Cyanide

The Joy of Wealth, to be taken away

Millions $ will be gained, who Gain?Who Lose?

The Pond of Death, Cyanide

The Trail of Destruction

When The Mining Stop !

• Wonder what will be left behind?

• The wealth that develop the town

• Or

• The Trail of Destruction?

– The Scarred Earth

– The Cyanide Pond

– The Death valley

• Time will Tell???.

The Resource

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for more than 35 years, the last 10 years

in Training and development.

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