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Gold Mining

Gold Mining . Monica, Alicia, & Jon. Techniques . Placer Mining Panning Sifting through to try and find the denser gold Sluicing Uses a sluice box ( panning in great quantities) Dredging Largest scale of placer mining Hard Rock Mining Underground mining Byproduct Mining

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Gold Mining

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  1. Gold Mining Monica, Alicia, & Jon

  2. Techniques • Placer Mining • Panning • Sifting through to try and find the denser gold • Sluicing • Uses a sluice box ( panning in great quantities) • Dredging • Largest scale of placer mining • Hard Rock Mining • Underground mining • Byproduct Mining • Looking for other minerals but obtaining enough gold to sell

  3. Location • Australia • North and South America • Africa • China

  4. Environmental Challenges • Hard Rock • Chemicals used along with explosives • Placer Mining • Take away from the surface • Refinement Process • Cyanide and Sulfuric Acid • Wash off acid and going into wastes • Nitric Acid

  5. Mercury • One of the byproducts of the gold mining process • Mercury is generally attached so they melt and refine it off as well

  6. Mining in Amazon • Because of recent gold rush comparable to the 1850’s California gold rush there has been a mass of growth of small informal mining companies who are using bad techniques • Hydraulic Mining • Released excess sediment into Amazon • Mercury • Finding its way back into the river after refinement process • Unregulated

  7. Mining in U.S. • Nevada( largest gold producing state) has been suffering from large open pit mining and Cyanide heap leaching techniques • CONTROVERCIES • A lot of gold mines found on Government land • Mining companies aren’t paying royalties

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