New insights into the extraction of invisible gold in a
#0183;#32;To extract gold from a lowgrade ( g/t) and highsulfur (% sulfide sulfur) Carlintype gold concentrate from the Nibao deposit, Guizhou, a biopretreatment followed by carboninpulp (CIP) cyanide leaching process was used. Various methods were used to detect the lowgrade gold in the concentrate; however, only timeofflight secondaryion mass spectrometry (TOFSIMS) was