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2. Recreational gold mining - Wikipedia

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   Recreational gold mining and prospecting has become a popular outdoor activity several countries, including New Zealand (particularly in Otago), Australia, South Africa, Wales (at Dolaucothi and in Gwynedd), Canada and the United States especially. Recreational mining is typically small-scale placer mining but has been challenged for ...

3. Rocker box - Wikipedia

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   Like a sluice box, the rocker box has riffles and a carpet in it to trap gold. It was designed to be used in areas with less water than a sluice box. The mineral processing involves pouring water out of a small cup and then rocking the small sluice box like a cradle, thus the name rocker box or cradle.

4. Placer mining - Wikipedia

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   A rocker box (or "cradle") is capable of greater volume than a gold pan; however, its production is still limited when compared to other methods of placer mining. It is only capable of processing about 3 or 4 yards of gravel a day. [13] It is more portable and requires less infrastructure than a sluice box, being fed not by a sluice but by hand.

5. AU Grabber - Wikipedia

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   The AU Grabber (pronounced as: Gold Grabber; [NB 1]) is a self-propelled barge excavator dredge used to mine Bering Sea placer gold deposits in the region around Nome, Alaska, USA. It is owned and operated by Richard Schimschat and featured in the Discovery Channel USA mining reality TV show Bering Sea Gold .

6. Gold prospecting - Wikipedia

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   Here, placer gold has been industrially extracted by sluices and mechanical devices. Great volumes of material have been washed along this river, the traces can still been seen on this aerial image, Prospecting for placer gold is normally done with a gold pan or similar instrument to wash free gold particles from loose surface sediment. [1]

7. List of gold mines in Australia - Wikipedia

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   Sandstone Gold Mine: Troy Resources NL: Sandstone: Mid West 29,885 (2009–10) South Kalgoorlie Gold Mine: Avoca Resources Limited Kalgoorlie: Goldfields-Esperance: 34,766 (2008–09) St Ives Gold Mine: Gold Fields Kambalda: Goldfields-Esperance: 428,300 (2008–09) Sunrise Dam Gold Mine: AngloGold Ashanti: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance ...

8. Western Australian Goldfields - Wikipedia

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   Sometimes West Australian Goldfields, even the goldfields or Eastern Goldfields is a term that has been used to either identify the region surrounding Kalgoorlie-Boulder within the current broader designated region of Goldfields-Esperance in Western Australia.

9. List of active gold mines in Western Australia - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of major active gold mines in Western Australia in 2022–23, according to the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.To qualify for the department's official list of principal mining projects an operation has to either had mineral sales valued at more than $5 million (or more than 2,500 oz of gold), or, for operations where such figures are not reported, had a ...