WOW.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: youtube gold prospecting

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Gold prospecting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_prospecting

    Gold prospecting is the act of searching for new gold deposits. Methods used vary with the type of deposit sought and the resources of the prospector. Although traditionally a commercial activity, in some developed countries placer gold prospecting has also become a popular outdoor recreation. Gold prospecting has been popular since antiquity.

  3. Aussie Gold Hunters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aussie_Gold_Hunters

    Release. 15 September 2016. ( 2016-09-15) –. present. Aussie Gold Hunters is an Australian factual television show which follows crews of gold prospectors in Australia. The series is produced by Electric Pictures and began on the Discovery Channel on 15 September 2016. The series has been a ratings success and gone on to air in 125 countries ...

  4. Recreational gold mining - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_gold_mining

    Recreational gold mining and prospecting has become a popular outdoor recreation in a number of countries, including New Zealand (especially in Otago), Australia, South Africa, Wales (at Dolaucothi and in Gwynedd), in Canada and in the United States especially. Recreational mining is often small-scale placer mining but has been challenged for ...

  5. Mining methods of the Klondike Gold Rush - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_methods_of_the...

    Underground mining. Most of the gold was below the surface. The miners first had to thaw the permafrost before they could dig. [2] A fire burning all night was used to soften the ground. This would then thaw to a depth of about 14 inches and the gravel could be removed. The process was repeated until the gold was reached.

  6. Gold extraction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_extraction

    Gold extraction. Cyanide leaching "heap" at a gold mining operation near Elko, Nevada. On top of the large mounds of ore, are sprinklers dispensing a solution of cyanide. Gold extraction is the extraction of gold from dilute ores using a combination of chemical processes. Gold mining produces about 3600 tons annually, [1] and another 300 tons ...

  7. Gold Prospectors Association of America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Prospectors...

    The Gold Prospectors Association of America ( GPAA) is an organization dedicated to finding and mining gold on a small or recreational scale. [1] It has gold claims across America and members can work the claims for a yearly fee. The club is headquartered in Temecula, California. Most, if not all GPAA, activities are in the United States.

  8. Prospecting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospecting

    The gold, deposited along a fracture, appears rusty-orange in this photo. Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory. It is the search for minerals, fossils, precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking .

  9. Gold panning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_panning

    Gold panning, or simply panning, is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts especially because of its low cost and relative simplicity. The first recorded instances of placer mining are ...

  1. Ads

    related to: youtube gold prospecting