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cyanidation

n. (context metallurgy English) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process

Usage examples of "cyanidation".

It hasn't been used in probably twenty years or more—not since the mines southeast of Plat City were played out—but it wouldn't take much to get one of the crushers and a cyanidation tank or two back in operation.