How gold is mined today?

Answer 1

Holes are drilled with hollow drills, this gives a cross section of what's underground. Where ther is a high concentration of gold, larger holes are drilled and filled with ammonium nitrate, diesel and bundles of high explosive. This gives a massive blast that shatters the rock. Bulldozers push the rock to a big digger that loads the big "haulpacks", the big dumpers. They cart the ore to the top of the open cut pit and start a stock pile. Road trains, one prime mover pulling 3 trailers, take this ore into the crusher, central to the mine. The ore is slowly digested, that is crushed and ground up to a very fine dust. It's mixed with lime. hydrochloric acid and water to give a slurry of the right Ph and specific gravity. As this slurry is ground finer and finer, the lighter parts are taken off. Arsenic and/or cyanide are introduced wich attract the gold particles then carbon that binds to both. The carbon is burnt and goes up the flue, the poison "stuff" is condensed and reintroduced into the process. Pure gold is left over.

Answer 2

there are mining machines that sift though the rock. they now can target when gold is located

Answer 3

Wid machines ........