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#Cyanide storage for mining wins overall 2014 ICHEME Global Award Technology to produce cyanide on-site at mines for metal extraction was crowned last night the overall winner of the 2014 Institute of Chemical Engineers (ICHEME) Global Awards. The Synergen Nacn Plant has been developed in a joint venture between Synergen Met, an Australian mining technology firm established to produce this technology, and engineers at the University of Queensland. Christopher Dunks, managing director of Synergen Met, accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit and the paradigm shift it generates for the supply of cyanide to the global mining community, says Dunks. t also validates the important impact it will have affected on communities by mines and the impact of removing cyanide from transport networks. Sodium cyanide is highly toxic but vital for extracting metals such as gold from its ore. Currently sodium cyanide is transported to and from a site, but the researchers developed a modular, self-contained, plasma-based unit to generate sodium cyanide at the mine itself. This technology eliminates the need to transport, store or handle both solid and liquid sodium cyanide. Not only is it much safer, the researchers say it is up to 50%cheaper for mine operators. The plant is around the size of a 40 foot shipping container making it transportable with the use of on-site machinery. A commercial prototype of the Synergen Nacn Plant has been installed and has been in operation at a gold mine in Australia since 2014 i

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