Small Mining Operations
What Do You Need For A Successful Micro-Scale Mine?
September 2020 by Keith Bowen
For simplicity, I will assume that you wish to make enough profit so that you can comfortably pay your bills using just the profits from the mine.
Guinea Africa: Gold, Ebola, and a Monkey Barbecue

Breaking Boulders With Explosives
The process we will be using is called “blockholing,” and it is commonly used at mines and in construction projects to break up oversize material into sizes that can be easily handled.
Heavy Glacial Rocks and Gold in the Midwest

A Test Grid Dredged for Gold Values
The evaluation must also consider the gold fineness or purity. The purity of the Sugardaddy nuggets is estimated at 850 fineness, meaning 85% is gold (Au), 12% is silver (Ag) with 3% being other gangue alloyed metal.
Small-Scale Concentrating and Recovery Methods

Prospector's Guide to Rock Breaking and Blasting

Caught Between A Hard Rock and A Rare Earth Place
The same day, while two of us were heading to Vancouver to attend the mining convention, two others from our team were headed to Nevada to begin loading the millsite equipment.
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