Extracting gold from rock OpenLearn Open University
Unlike alluvial gold, which is found as very small flakes on river banks, goldbearing rocks have to be dug out of the ground. We want pure gold, but goldbearing rocks include lots of other materials such as quartz, calcite and the sulfides of other metals. We need to separate the gold from everything else in the rock so the rock needs to be treated in some way.
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