The Mt Carrington mine site in northern NSW, Australia, carries a legacy of more than 150 years of gold and silver mining (some copper, zinc and antimony were also recovered), but the last commercial operations stopped in 1989. Mineralogical recovery of gold and silver employed the carbon-in-pulp cyanide extraction method. After extraction of gold and […]
READ MOREMt Carrington Tailings Dam Treatment
“Following treatment using Virotec’s technology, the treated water was 100 times cleaner than drinking water”. Following the closure of Mt Carrington Gold and Silver mine in the early 1990’s, a legacy of over 100 years of mining was left in the form of a severely contaminated tailings dam. This 14 ha tailings dam had been […]
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