Gold Mining Process
April 22nd, 2009
Gold; everyone know about it, it is a valuable mining yield that the amount belongs to one of the most rare materials in this earth. Since the first time invented, gold is always popular and valuable. It ever been as the materials of money in the ancient time and as the rareness of it; it becomes more and more valuable till now. Gold mining is hard to find right now; it is not like any other mining materials such as silver, coal, copper and many more. It is material that is usually used for jewelries and sometimes souvenirs that is so high in price.
For the smaller amount in the earth, gold mining is not too much found in this world. People know it is valuable since thousands years ago and has started the mining for such a long time so that there are still half of the sums. There are kinds of way of people to mine the gold. Just like another metals; gold can be found in the earth by digging it first. Traditionally, people know about the content of gold in the earth by the texture of the surface soil that is different by the other; there is such glowing in the soil of gold. But such kind of soil was found in the ancient time. By now, gold is known from satellite scanning that shows soil texture and stone structure that produces different light scanned. From the information scanned, some mine researchers will recheck the materials including the ages of the soil from its layers, checking the water contented inside, the stone kinds, etc so they can judge whether it can be explored or not.
There are some kinds of gold mining that are usually done; two of them are ‘block caving’ and open pit’. Block caving is a technique by destroying a part of the hill in the under ground mining called Deep Ore Zone with such explosion. While open pit is the open mining that is used carrier trucks and electric huge ….to dig the earth. The destroyed gold soil is carried to the producing factory. It is milled to be gold sands then processed into the floating with reagent the liquid that consists of alcohol and chalk stone. In the floating process minerals such as gold, silver and copper will float to the surface and will be skimmed-off as the last producing. The useless remains will sink and flow to the lower lands. The concentrate gold liquid is then supplied to the drying factory and stored before it is sold to the melting gold factories all over the world.
A country with gold mining inside has good prospect in the economical development besides the fulfilling of world metals needs. The yields of the gold will perfectly high in cost and give great incomes to the country itself and well support the social condition of the people. The gold mining should be completed by proportional technology to keep environment balance around the mining. The gold mining will be great for social aspect since it will never endanger environment.
