The desirability of gold has made it a symbol of luxury, power, style and wealth but its rarity makes its extraction a tedious process. While gold can be found in loose sediments, the largest proportion produced worldwide is through hard rock mining. Let’s delve into the process of developing a gold mine. From the beginning […]
Old hard rock mine dumps are often overlooked by prospectors, who often gravitate toward the placer deposits in creeks and rivers rather than hillside deposits. This can be a mistake. Even though a lot of mine dumps will be unproductive, some of them can be very rich if you learn how to hunt them correctly. […]
Recovering Gold from Hard Rock After following all of the clues and searching in all of those places gold might be found, you have managed to recover what appears to be gold. A person who has managed to find and discover what they believe to be gold is naturally very eager to see it […]
For prospectors who are interested in finding gold deposits, there are a series of steps that will help you in your adventures. Locating an undiscovered gold deposit is no easy task, especially when you consider that there have been thousands of prospectors before you who have been searching for gold. To be successful, there are […]