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Placer mining involves extracting minerals like gold from loose, unconsolidated materials, such as alluvial deposits or sandbars. On the other hand, lode mining involves extracting minerals from hard rock deposits, typically by following veins or deposits of valuable minerals embedded within the rock.
Gold is recovered by three basic mining methods: placer mining of alluvial deposits, lode or vein mining, and recovery as a by-product of base-metal mining.
Placer mining was largely replaced by hydraulic mining and hard rock mining methods. Hydraulic mining used high-pressure water jets to extract minerals, while hard rock mining involved digging tunnels and shafts to access mineral deposits underground. These methods were more efficient and able to extract minerals from deeper beneath the surface.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in mining gold ores from lode deposits or in the recovery of gold from placer deposits by any method.
Placer mining involves extracting minerals such as gold from riverbeds and alluvial deposits using techniques like panning and sluicing. Hydraulic mining involves using high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock and sediment to extract minerals. Hard-rock mining involves underground excavation to extract minerals like gold, silver, and copper from solid rock deposits.
In the Gold Rush. hydraulic mining was a law to protect the enviorment! Hydraulic mining can ruin the enviorment!
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It's is Surface mining
gold and silver deposits in Nevada
gold and silver deposits in Nevada
It was an important silver ore mining area.You can read about Comstock Lode's history at the link below:
Hydraulic mining