Placer gold is a term that refers to gold found in a secondary deposit Usually gold occurs in lode deposits However the weathering of the hard rock and action of rivers and even glaciers in some places have carried the fine gold nuggets and particles and deposited them somewhere else away from the original lode deposit
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Get PriceRetreat mining This type follows room and pillar mining until mining completes in the room This method removes the pillars for their ore content to maximize material recovery Blast mining Blast mining uses explosives to loosen rocks and open mining spaces especially to remove hard rock from both underground or surface mines
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Get Price6 days agoHard rock mining is the process of using open pit or underground mining tunnels to retrieve the gold from the rock This method of gold mining is responsible for recovering most of the worlds gold supply Byproduct mining is related to hard rock mining in that open pit or underground mining tunnels are used
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Get PriceThere are four main mining methods underground open surface pit placer and in situ mining Underground mines are more expensive and are often used to reach deeper deposits Surface mines are typically used for more shallow and less valuable deposits Placer mining is used to sift out valuable metals from sediments in river channels beach
Get PriceOpen pit mining or open cast mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow This form of mining differs from extractive methods that require tunneling into the earth such as long wall mining Open pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful minerals or rocks are found near the surface; that is where
Get PriceExtracting gold before the 20th Century was mostly done by using gravity separation placer mining This is like the old California miners panning in the river However in the 20th Century a scientist discovered cyanide could leach gold from hard rock This was a huge breakthrough and makes up a large part of today s mining industry
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