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cyanide man
In ore dressing, smelting, and refining, a person who tends equipment in which finely ground gold or silver ore is treated with a cyanide solution to separate free gold or silver from the gangue (waste material).
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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