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Which process uses cyanide to extract gold?

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Answer: Heap leaching

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The answer is Leaching.

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The cyanidation of gold is a metallurgical technique for the extraction of gold from low quality ore, which seeks to convert gold (insoluble in water) into complex metal anions of aurocyanide (soluble in water) through a process called leaching, which is a process in which a liquid solvent passes through a pulverized solid so that the dissolution of one or more of the soluble components of the solid occurs.

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