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Extracting gold from ore. Gold comes in small concentrations in the ore mined from the ground so they soak it with cyanaide which binds to the gold and then they collect the cyanide and use another chemical reaction to separate it from the gold.

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Q: What can cyanide can be used for in terms of mining?
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