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 […]
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How Cyanide Leaching is Used in Gold Mining
There have been several methods developed by miners to extract gold particles from ore over the last hundred or so years. Of those methods, the ‘Cyanide Leaching Process’ (Cyanidation), is the method that is commonly used the most often to do this. As the name implies, the main component in the process is a sodium […]
Extreme Gold Mining in Nunavut, Canada
In fairly recent history, Nunavut has become of considerable interest to gold mining companies. Although conditions here are some of the harshest in the world, there are considerable mineral resources underneath the ice, and some adventurous prospectors have started giving Nunavut the attention that it rightly deserves. At the present time, Nunavet has only one […]