Dredging for Gold
The first thing that probably comes to mind when most people think of searching for gold is panning for gold from streams. After that, they would most likely name mining gold from solid rock, such as from a large open pit or from tunnels blasted along lode-bearing quartz veins. Who could blame them? Exciting stories […]
Gold Plating Machine
If you want to rehabilitate old gold plated jewelry, preserve a memory, or create a keepsake from a natural object, a gold plating machine is an excellent option. At about the cost of a sewing machine, these simple and affordable devices can pay for themselves over time just as easily as other household appliances, […]
Elements Associated with Gold
On a Periodic Table, elements often found to associate with gold have been group/classified. Elements Universally Associated with Gold Elements Typical in Minerals Commonly Associated with Gold Elements Concentrated in Gold Bearing Mineral Associations of Individual Orebodies Elements Characteristic of Gold Only Ores Elements with Traces Commonly found in Gold and its Compounds. This does […]
Processing Gold by Cyanidation Leaching
Processing Heap Leachable Gold Ore by Cyanidation Oxide ore (low grades) will be unloaded on the heap leach PAD. Lime must be added during the discharge in order to control pH. Harvesting must be performed after the ore discharge is completed in order to avoid compaction caused by the trucks during the leach cell construction. After […]
Geology Of Hard Rock Gold Deposits
Man knew more about gold itself and lusted for it much before he understood the geology of hard rock gold or its deposits. Man had to learn about hard rock extraction methods and how to locate those gold deposits just to satisfy the thirst for that yellow metal. Gold has been the most highly esteemed […]
Gold Dredge
Original gold dredging began in the very early 1900’s, mainly to harvest gravels and sands for gold in previously worked placer gold fields. Some of these gold fields are the California ones of the Sierra Nevada 1849 gold rush, the Yukon one of the Klondike area near Dawson City and Atlin, BC. These gold dredges […]
Gold Prospector Microscope – DIY Mineralogy & Microscopy for Prospecting
Small Gold Prospectors, Miners and Processors needing simple DIY mineralogy or microscopy work can take advantage of the fact that a gold shaker table behaves as some kind of a classifying device and view their gold sample directly under a microscope without all the preparation work. You can take any of your Prospecting products and look at […]
Gold Panning -History of a Prospecting Method (Tool)
Gold panning is the cheapest method/tool (and oldest method of mining gold) of placer mining to extract gold from gold placer deposits which occur in river/stream beds. Evidence of gold panning and other placer mining methods reach way back to the times of the Romans. Early the history of metals, the Spanish used placer methods, including […]
How To Pan For Gold
If you are just starting out as a gold prospector you will need to know the basics and how-to behind practices like gold panning. When you first go out to a body of water like a river, pond or creek, if you have a pair of waterproof boots on hand, put them on so that […]
Carlin Type Gold System Exploration
Now let’s turn to exploration Carlin Type Gold System: This is the image that I showed earlier of the topography of Northern Nevada with the location of Carlin deposits marked, note how most of the deposits that are being discovered to date are either in the ranges or clustered along the edges of the flat […]