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  2. Gold mining - Wikipedia

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    In South America, gold mining in the Andes dates back to thousands of years, with the Inca empire employing extensive gold mining operations in regions such as present-day Peru and Ecuador. [16] [17] They used stone tools and simple mining techniques to extract gold from rivers, streams, and surface deposits. [16] [17]

  3. Gold extraction - Wikipedia

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    Gold extraction is the extraction of gold from dilute ores using a combination of chemical processes. Gold mining produces about 3600 tons annually, [1] and another 300 tons is produced from recycling. [2] Since the 20th century, gold has been principally extracted in a cyanide process by leaching the ore with cyanide solution.

  4. Gold panning - Wikipedia

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    Panning for gold in a creek bed Gold in the pan, Alaska Man gold panning in Fairplay, Colorado early 1900s with dog. Gold panning, or simply panning, is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology ...

  5. Placer mining - Wikipedia

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    The gold bearing gravel is accessed by shafts and drives similar to underground mining techniques but is typically processed as if alluvial gold. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The heat associated with an igneous lava flow, in some cases, altered the gold bearing gravel so that it needed to be crushed first to extract the gold; an example of this kind of ...

  6. Mining methods of the Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    Panning for gold was the simplest method of recovering gold, but mostly used for prospecting since it was slow. A faster way was by a rocker box or by sluicing. Dirt was filled into the box or sluice together with water and rocking movements or gravity would make the gold particle go to the bottom whereas sand and fine gold particles would flow ...

  7. Hydraulic mining - Wikipedia

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    Gold miners excavate an eroded bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870.. The modern form of hydraulic mining, using jets of water directed under very high pressure through hoses and nozzles at gold-bearing upland paleogravels, was first used by Edward Matteson near Nevada City, California in 1853 during the California Gold Rush. [3]

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