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Highly toxic cyanide is used to extract gold ore.
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How gold mining poisonous?
The toxic heavy metal, mercury is frequently used to separate out the gold.
How is gold mining taken from the earth?
They took gold mining from the Earth? Who took the gold mining and how? There's no more gold mining on Earth? What's up with that?
What is gold mining?
Gold mining is digging for rocks to find gold.
This peninsula was known for gold mining?
gold mining
Is gold mining dangerous?
gold mining is dangerous because you have to get money and have a lot of money and gold mining is hard
How was mercury used in the mining process?
At time mercury was used to extract metallic gold from gold ore. The ore was crushed to powder, and washed over a copper sheet covered in mercury. The gold would combine with the mercury, and be recovered by distilling the mercury. This was very dangerous due to the poisonous nature of mercury- and it only captured about 15% of the gold. It is no longer used in gold mining.
What were the miners mining for?
They worked in a gold mine for a company mining for gold.
How is plutonium used in gold mining?
Plutonium is not used in gold mining !
Are gold and black ladybugs poisonous?
gold and black ladybugs are poisonous
How can gold mining effect us?
Gold mining effects us by the gold fever many people have. ):-(
What are some of the gold mining companies?
Barrick Gold, Anglogold Ashanti, GoldCorp, and Newmont Mining Corp are the 4 largest gold mining companies in the world.
Who took over gold mining operations after the first rush to western gold mining towns?
Large mining companies
