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Great Basin a Golden Opportunity

Introduction

The author first took notice of Great Basin Gold (GBG) close to a decade ago, when an associate mentioned the stock about a new mine starting up in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa. Well, this same company’s prime mine is now scheduled to begin milling ore next month in July of 2010; as they say about the plans of mice and men that often go awry, “leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy.” We the believers in GBG have had to endure a lot.

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What You Need to Know about Gold Mining

The process of gold mining dates back to the Roman Period and since then, there have been many methods by which it is done. Each technique follows a very intricate process and different mining companies around the world settle for the method that they believe will be most beneficial to their business. Here are some of those methods:
a. Placer Mining
• Gold Panning – this is the method of manually sorting gold out using a shallow pan. This is effective because gold tends to settle beneath everything else.
• Metal Detecting – this is done, of course, with the… Continue reading

Gold Mining

The main type of gold extraction today is hard rock mining using either open pit methods or sub-surface mines. Mining gold from water was a method that was widely used during the California gold rush but is not commercially viable today and is used mainly by artisan gold miners.

Gold Mining: Panning

The original method of mining gold from water was known as panning and is a manual technique to sort gold from gravel and sediments present in a stream. The pan is filled with material from the stream bed and then submerged underwater and shaken. As gold… Continue reading

Environmental Concerns of Gold Mining

Producing pure gold results in a very high environmental burden due to the physical mining and extraction processes used to extract the pure metal. Whether gold is obtained from base ore which requires a mining operation (and tons of gold ore are required to produce one gram of pure gold) or by extracting gold metal from rivers and streams, the environmental impact is simply enormous. Continue reading




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