John Stewart MacArthur

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John Stewart MacArthur was a chemist from Glasgow. He is credited with the development of the MacArthur-Forrest Cyanidation Process in 1887, used to extract gold in South Africa. His patent for the process was voided. MacArthur died in 1920.

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  • Bernstein, Peter L. (2000). "The Power Of Gold: The History Of An Obsession" pp. 229-231. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25210-7


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