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| A PROSPECTOR DIGGING AND PANNING FOR PLACER GOLD IN A STREAM AREA. THE WAY GOLD WAS MINED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. TODAY, MODERN MINING METHODS REQUIRE PRECISE ENGINEERING, DESIGN, MODERN EQUIPMENT AND SKILLED PROFESSIONALS TO PRODUCE PRECIOUS METALS WITHOUT HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT WHILE KEEPING COSTS IN LINE TO MAKE IT A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. |
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OF A MODERN GOLD MINE AND PROCESSING PLANT. STATE OF THE ART
HEAP LEACH PROCESSING AND OPEN PIT MINING ALLOW MINING
COMPANIES TO PROCESS ORE WITH AS LITTLE AS 0.015 OUNCES OF
GOLD PER TON OF ROCK (ORE) AND MAKE A PROFIT. TRY THAT WITH A
PICK, SHOVEL AND GOLD PAN!
| PHOTO OF GOLD PROCESSING PLANT WITH CARBON COLUMNS. THE GOLD IS LEACHED WITH A DILUTE CYANIDE WATER SOLUTION, PASSED THROUGH THE COLUMNS FILLED WITH ACTIVATED CARBON WHERE THE GOLD IS ADSORBED ONTO THE CARBON. THE CARBON IS THEN REMOVED AND WASHED WITH CAUSTIC SODA and CYANIDE SOLUTION TO REMOVE THE GOLD, THEN THE WASH SOLUTION IS PROCESSED THROUGH ELECTROLYTIC CELLS, WHERE THE GOLD IS RECOVERED. THE CARBON COLUMNS ARE USED TO GIVE A MORE CONCENTRATED SOLUTION OF GOLD, PRIOR TO PROCESSING THE SOLUTION IN THE ELECTROLYTIC CELLS, WHERE THE GOLD IS PLATED ONTO THE CATHODE AND RECOVERED, MELTED AND POURED INTO A MOLD WHERE IT IS CALLED A DORE BAR OR INGOT. |
| FOR CURRENT GOLD PRICES, Click on this text. |