Whenever flowsheets are considered for treatment of silver ores, the conventional approach is in favour of a Merrill-Crowe processing circuit rather than CIL/CIP.
This is understandable when the historical development of CIP is considered.
What has been disregarded is the fact that for the last 30 years, there have been CIP plants successfully treating ore with high silver/gold ratios.
The paper presented addresses the continuing debate on the use of carbon for silver recovery, and seeks to explain the origin of the Silver Coconut “myth.”