“…After 304 days 75% Ni and 93% Cu were extracted in the bioleach experiment at 65°C, and after 60 days 58% Pt, 99% Pd and 90% Au in the follow-up cyanide leach experiment at 50°C. PGM cyanide complexes can, in principle, be upgraded or recovered from solution using various approaches, such as Merrill-Crowe cementation (Mpinga et al, 2014a), adsorption onto activated carbon (Mpinga et al, 2014b;Snyders et al, 2012Snyders et al, , 2013Snyders et al, , 2014a, and using ion-exchange resins (Schoeman et al, 2012). The adsorption of the PGM cyanide complexes onto activated carbon has, in particular, received a fair bit of attention (Mpinga et al, 2014b;Snyders et al, 2013;Snyders et al, 2014a,b;Aguilar et al, 1997;Roijals et al, 1996;Desmond et al, 1991) and has proved to be a feasible option.…”