Cyanide leach mining is now the dominant method used by the hardrock mining industry to extract gold and other metals from ore. The idea of using cyanide for the recovery of gold was first developed in Scotland in the late 19th century. By 1969, the US Bureau of Mines proposed cyanide heap-leaching as a method to recover gold from extremely low-grade ore.
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