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Gravity Concentration

Beach Mining

Beach mining is a comparatively unimportant form of shallow placer mining. The sea beaches on parts of the coasts of California, Australia and New Zealand

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Equipment

How Does a Gold Dredge Work

To understand How Does a Gold Dredge Work, we may want to start by looking at California or Alaska. Gold dredging in now practised on the

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Geology

What is Native Gold

Native gold always contains silver, which occurs in varying proportions, the colour becoming paler with the increase of silver. The finest native gold yet found

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Geology

Dissemination of Gold

Dissemination of Gold.—The wide distribution of gold in minute quantities throughout the world was pointed out by W. E. Dubois, an Assayer in the United

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Gold Extraction

Gold Compounds

Gold is characterised chemically by an extreme indifference to the action of all bodies usually met with in nature. Its simpler compounds are formed with

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Gold Extraction

Gold Silicates

The existence of auro-silicates is now admitted without dispute, and gold has for centuries been used to impart colour to glasses, the method used being

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