CYANIDE IN WATER

Cyanide is connected to the beginning of life or to gold extraction for the good life or to the poisoning of life, specially in the case of Cyanide in water.

Cyanide is linked to all these thoughts. Gold Cyanide and Silver Cyanide are connected to mining and Gold Extraction. Cyanide toxicity in this process can create Hydrogen Cyanide and Thiocyanate. Improperly controlled in solution, Cyanide and Hydrogen Cyanide can off-gas to deadly results. Gold Ores processed with Cyanide properly controlled by the pH of the leaching solution can lead to the safe extraction of gold. A high alkaline pH must be maintained. This cyanide gold process is used in a majority of gold mining and gold extracting operations in the world today.

Cyanide analysis of the leaching solution is one key to safe and economic extraction of gold from gold ores. Testing for pH, dissolved oxygen(DO), cyanide concentration in solution and in air (HCN) need to be accomplished. Cyanide analysis in solution is best found through the use of a specialized spectrophotometer called a colorimeter. Colorimetry can be used to quantify many ions in an unknown solution.

Colorimeters made by LaMotte provide answers to Cyanide concentration in leaching solutions. The SMART3 LaMotte Colorimeter and LaMotte Test Reagents for Cyanide may be the perfect solution to the Gold Extracting processes.

Portable Cyanide Analyzer

The SMART3 Colorimeter is the direct reading colorimeter for Cyanide in water analysis. The multi-LED optical system is embedded in the light chamber and optimized for LaMotte's 75+ preprogrammed calibrations for reagent systems, with the option of adding 25 customized more.

LaMotte SMART 3 Colorimeter

• Simple menu-driven display.
• Over 80 pre-programmed tests with 25 user tests.
• Automatic wavelength selection.
• The SMART 3 Colorimeter is supplied with 6 sample tubes, COD/UDV adapter, USB cable, USB wall/computer adapter, and instruction manual including test procedures.
• Data logger can hold up to 500 time and date stamped data points.
• Verified by the AMS Center for Homeland Security applications