The invention relates to a process for extracting gold from 
gold ore containing 
copper by using 
ammonia, 
cyanide and carbon. The process sequentially comprises the following steps: smashing, 
grinding and thickening, i.e. smashing and 
grinding the 
gold ore containing 
copper until the ground 
gold ore containing 
copper with grain size of -0.075 mm accounts for 80-95% and then thickening to obtain thickened ore 
slurry, wherein the concentration is controlled at 35-48%; extracting while inhibiting copper extraction, i.e. adding 
lime milk, 
ammonium salt and 
sodium cyanide in the thickened ore 
slurry and extracting while inhibiting copper extraction for 12-36 hours while controlling the pH value at 7-11, the total 
ammonia concentration at 200-1000 ppm and the total 
cyanide concentration at 20-500 ppm to obtain extraction ore 
slurry; carrying out carbon extraction on the extraction core slurry for 24-48 hours while controlling the 
carbon density at 10-30 g / L to obtain gold loaded carbon with 
high copper content and 
tailings; and decoppering and extracting gold, i.e. adding 
sodium cyanide with the concentration of 3-20% to the gold loaded carbon with 
high copper content according to the liquid-carbon ratio of (3-10) to 1, decoppering for 10-48 hours to obtain decoppered gold loaded carbon and decoppered cyanide solution, carrying out high-temperature non-cyanide 
desorption and electro winning, purification and 
ingot making on the decoppered gold loaded carbon to produce gold ingots, and recycling tailing water and decoppered cyanide solution. The process for extracting gold from gold ore containing copper by using 
ammonia, cyanide and carbon disclosed by the invention has the advantages of short process flow, small investment, low operation and control difficulty, small consumption of reagents, low production cost and the like, and is suitably applied to difficultly-beneficiated-and-smelted gold ore containing copper, and the influence of copper on 
gold extraction procedures is thoroughly overcome.