There are also concerns about the fact that Lydian International – which has no prior experience in mining – plans to use cyanide heap-leaching to recover gold from Amulsar. Heap-leaching, as stated on Lydian’s official website, “is a process whereby precious metals such as gold and silver are extracted from rock by placing mineralized material on a lined pad (a base) in a heap and irrigating with a leaching solvent, such as cyanide or acid.
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