Cyanide Leach Packet Earthworks
River, eventually poisoning the Danube and infecting over 250 miles of rivers in Hungary and Yugoslavia. 1 The cyanide process for extracting gold was an improvement over the inefficient mercury amalgamation process that was used at that time, which usually recovered no more than 60 of an ore bodys gold. In contrast, leaching finely ground ore with cyanide could recover more than 97 of



































