Worldwide there are over 43 million artisanal miners in virtually all developing countries
extracting at least 30 different minerals. Gold, due to its increasing value, is the main mineral …

Drawing on recent experimental and commercial developments, this review reappraises
potential substitute leach reagents for cyanide in the gold mining sector. In addition to …

Conventional mining practices do not extract all mineralized rocks due to prevailing
economics. Improvement in mineral prices and processing recovery (technology) could …

Goldfields extend for 300 km around the margin of the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin of
South Africa associated with regional greenschist facies metamorphism and deformation …

Alteration is recorded throughout much of the 3 km thick Upper Witwatersrand succession in
South Africa, and extends for 300 km around the basin and 50 km into the basin. The …

This paper demonstrates a simple, minimally-invasive method of estimating the gold
recovery rate of gravitational separation equipment used by artisanal and small-scale …

Placer gold is widely distributed in southwestern Cameroon but no known lode sources
have been uncovered possibly because of intense weathering. In this study, the morphology …

The objective of this work was to establish the gold and mercury losses in an artisanal
mining deposit (Uke) in Nigeria to convince miners about their inefficiency and suggest …

Glacial drift exploration methods are well established and widely used by mineral industry
exploring for blind deposit in northern territories, and rely on the dispersion of mineral or …

The quantitative and qualitative assessment of gold grains from samples of glacial till is a
well-established method for exploring gold deposits hidden under glaciated cover. This …