When selling placer gold of typical purity, you can expect to get around 70%-80% of the gold metal value. For really beautiful gold nuggets, you can get twice the metal value, or even more! …
Placer gold occurs when a larger lode deposit is worn away by flowing water. Small pieces of gold break away from the lode deposit and get carried off by the water. Placer …
Lode mining, also known as hard rock mining, is the process of extracting gold from traditional veins of ore that are embedded within rocks and other minerals. To …
Placer deposits result from weathering and release of gold from lode deposits, transportation of the gold, and concentration of the gold dominantly in stream gravels. …
Placer mining, ancient method of using water to excavate, transport, concentrate, and recover heavy minerals from alluvial or placer deposits. Examples of deposits mined by …