Analysis from the social sciences of the development of technologies for the use of gold minerals with the use of sodium thiosulfate
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The objective of this work is to analyze the development of sustainable technologies for the comprehensive use of current and future minerals with the use of new alternative leaching agents to cyanide, such as sodium thiosulfate, from the dimention of social sciences. The relationship that this research reveals between science-technology-environment. This analysis is carried out through the application of technological innovations of the incremental type, product of research and development work, in the field of extractive hydrometallurgy. The understanding of the scientific and technological phenomenon as a social process and the social circumstances that give it meaning. When putting into practice the knowledge into practice the knowledge achieved in this subject, a technique similar to conventional cyanidation is manifested, but with the use of sodium thiosulfate as a leaching agent, which makes us of the scientific research method in its three variants: theoretical, empirical and statistical. Taking into account the dialectical materialist methodology of the logical empirical level, which allows to ensuring that the developed proposal is technically, economically and environmentally feasible, with its influence on the quality of life of citizens.
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