The following document provides information on the method to extract soluble cyanide salts and many insoluble cyanide complexes from wastes and leachates, designed to address the problem of "trace" analyses.

This method is an SW-846 Method-Defined Parameter (MDP), meaning that it may not be modified when used for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) testing. For more information, see the Methods Innovation Rule page.

• Method 9010C: Total and Amenable Cyanide: Distillation, part of Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods (PDF)(10 pp, 55 K, November 2004)