Improved gold recovery expected with cyanide leaching aid

Guyana and Canada will cooperate to introduce cyanide leaching technology to improve gold recovery in the medium-scale mining sector here.

An agreement for this was inked yesterday between the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC). The partners also agreed to build the Commission’s technical capacity for pre-concentration of gold ore. The signing was done at the Ocean View Convention Centre, Liliendaal in the presence of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, CIDA’s Head of Development Cooperation for Guyana and Suriname, Raymond Drouin, and senior officials and staff of the two agencies, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

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