What is Carbon-in-pulp (CIP)?

Carbon-in-pulp (CIP) is a way to clean up gold from its messy home.

Imagine you have a big bowl of soup, it’s full of different things: veggies, noodles, and some tiny pieces of gold hiding in there. You want just the gold, but how do you get rid of everything else? That's where carbon comes in!

Think of carbon like a super-absorbent sponge. When you add it to your soup (or the messy mix of gold and other stuff), the sponge grabs hold of the tiny gold pieces, pulling them away from everything else. This is called adsorption, fancy word for "sticking on."

After some time, you take out the sponge (the carbon) and shake it, like when you wring out a wet towel. The gold comes off, clean and ready to be used.

This process is used in real life to get gold from its raw form, just like how we use sponges at home! It's simple, efficient, and works really well, making it popular in places where people mine for gold.