Environmental impact of high-value gold scrap
25.08.2020· The ore contents in gold mining range from only half a gram per ton of ore, for example, in the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Brazil to several tens of grams per ton of ore in the large industrial mines in Canada or Australia. Furthermore, chemicals such as cyanide or mercury are used for extraction. The widely quoted study by Earthworks (Septoff 2004) stated, for example, that a