There is no way to sugar coat it… gold mining is not what it use to be. In decades past, a miner could drop a gold dredge into a gold-bearing river and mine to his hearts-content. Or perhaps run a backhoe and trommel. A few months of hard work in the summer could result in […]
commercial mining
Mining Placer Deposits using a Gold Trommel
If you’ve every watched one of the mining shows on TV, then you’ve probably seen a trommel in action. Nearly all of the large commercial placer operations use them, but they are increasingly being used by smaller scale miners too. The main function performed by the equipment is that of processing large volumes of gravel […]
The Cortez Gold Mine – One of Nevada’s Biggest Mining Operations
An Overview of the Open Pit Mining Process
Open-pit mining which is sometimes referred to as open cut mining, opencast mining or simply strip mining is a mining technique that extracts important minerals from a borrow or an open pit. There are two types of mining methods commonly used in large scale mineral mining; open pit mining and tunneling. Open pit mining is […]
Mining Gold Deposits from Greenstone Belts
As is typical with all precious and valuable resources, people are finding new sources of gold around the world and then finding new ways to harvest the gold that has been found. From what was traditionally done through the use of deep underground mines and placer mining in streams and rivers, now gold can be […]