A CIL plant refers to a Carbon-in-Leach plant, which is a type of gold processing facility used in the mining industry. Here’s a clear breakdown: What It Does: • A CIL plant extracts gold from ore using a combination of chemical leaching and adsorption. • Gold-bearing ore is crushed and ground into fine particles. • A chemical called cyanide is added to the slurry (water ground ore) to dissolve gold. • Activated carbon is added directly into the leach tanks, where it adsorbs the dissolved gold f