Gold mining

It's no secret that using a good quality sluice box. Here is the best portable sluice box and the best sluice box for recovering fine gold.

So, you want to search for gold ore. How do you identify good gold prospects? If your strategy involves crushing any and every rock you come across, you'll be crushing for the rest of your life and won't find a flake. Here are some simple field tests you can perform to help you narrow your search.

When Mark Selby received an email in the middle of the night that his mining company had struck what may be the two largest gold nuggets ever discovered, he was shocked.

They cost nothing... or next to nothing.

Fire up your metal detector — there's a fortune in lost gold waiting to be found in Wyoming!

The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. A canyon-size hole populated by house-size trucks, it's large enough to be seen from orbit. Here's what it looks like up close.

This chart shows the top gold mines by tonnes of gold produced annually.

Photo about Mining trucks at the Super Pit gold mine, Western Australia. Image of australia, anthropogenic, mining - 23370077

The source of gold or other minerals found in a placer may be one or more of the following:

Photographic negative, miners outside a New England gold mine, glass / gelatin emulsion, published by Kerry and Co, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1885-1900