
Innovations in precious metal recovery
removed from the electrowinning cells and manually washed using high-pressure water jets to dislodge a gold sludge. This is filtered, after which the filter cake is smelted and cast into impure* gold bars. These bars are sent to a refinery, generally at a remote location, for further purification. In recent times the electrowinning has also been carried out in so-called 'sludge reactors'1
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