When activated carbon is used for recovering gold in the gold industry, carbon fines are generated in stripping, acid-washing and kiln regeneration circuits. The carbon fines at the Fort Knox mine, Fairbanks Gold Mining Inc., contain as much as 0.68 kg/t (20 oz/st) gold. In laboratory tests, gold in the carbon fines was effectively transferred to coarse virgin carbon when the carbon fines were mixed with virgin carbon in cyanide solution at a cyanide concentration higher than 0.10%. A plant-scale test conducted at the Fort Knox mine also showed effective gold transfer from the carbon fines to virgin carbon with a 95% gold recovery in a two-stage gold transfer process.