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I am an amateur prospector- and panning for placer gold (gold dust) suits me. It requires very little in the way of equipment, is fun, and gives you a great reason to spend a quiet Saturday on the river. However, large commercial mining companies mine gold in a very different way- drilling and blasting rock that is crushed, and the gold refined chemically. The Homestake Mine had shafts nearly 8000 feet deep before it closed.
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Which type of mining is used to recover titanium and gold from beaches and riverbeds?
Placer mining
What type of mining was required to find gold?
All types of mining were used to find gold. Panning was used to pan small amounts of gold .
What type of mining is used to obtain gold?
Hardrock or Placer?
What was not a major type of work in new netherland settlement?
Gold mining
Which type of mining would be best for getting the silver?
open pit mining
What kind of jobs does South Africa have?
gold mining, diamond mining, coal mining etc.
Where can you find a map of gold mining sites in Australia?
Go to Google and type in gold mining maps. See what the search giant gives you. ok i need to know where gold was found in AUStralia in 1800's:D
What type of work helped settle mountain regions of the west?
Mining (the Gold Rush) and Farming
What type of network topology best suits customers?
star topogy
What is the difference between alluvial and quartz mining?
The word Alluvial describes a type of soil. It can be made up of sand, silt, clay, gravel, or other matter deposited by flowing water. Alluvial Mining is when a prospector gets the gold bearing soil from a creek, river or river deposits. Once they gather the soil and refine the material to concentrate they use a gold pan to pan for gold- the gold they find is called alluvial gold. Quartz reef mining is when it is mined from the source. Its particles of gold embedded in quartz. The difference between alluvial and quartz mining is that alluvial mining takes place far from the source of the gold and found in rivers and creeks. Quartz mining takes place at the source of the gold.
What is a tom in gold mining?
The term "long tom" was for a type of very long sluice box used to separate [lacer gold from the base rock.
What is the safest type of mining?
The safest and cheapest type of mining is surface mining.
