The invention relates to a low-grade
gold ore heap leaching method. The method comprises the following steps: crushing and grading ores into four particle sizes of coarse, medium, fine and fine
silt; respectively adding a compound additive containing
ferrous sulfate,
potassium citrate,
citric acid and
sodium citrate into the fine particle grade and the fine
silt grade, and granulating to realize iron pre-activation and
potassium source presetting; adopting a three-layer reversed-order gradient heap building with a coarse fraction as a bottom layer, a medium fraction and a part of
granulation particles as a middle layer and the rest
granulation particles as an upper layer; a
potassium ferricyanide circulating
system with concentrated spraying on the upper layer, targeted liquid supplementing on the middle layer and
aeration regeneration on the bottom layer is established, and pre-activated Fe < 2 + > on the upper layer is utilized to generate part of
potassium ferricyanide in situ to selectively oxidize
arsenopyrite. According to the method, iron sources of ores and
ferrous sulfate are used for supplementing iron in a low-price mode, cyclic regeneration is combined with
potassium ferricyanide, agent consumption and cost are greatly reduced,
harm reduction of
arsenic is achieved, and the method has the advantages of being high in
gold leaching rate, short in leaching period,
environmentally friendly, low in comprehensive cost and the like.