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Month: June 2012

Concentration of Gold Ores – a Key to Reducing Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining

By Kevin Telmer - June 3, 2012

In artisanal gold mining, mercury is essentially used to concentrate the gold. It does this by bonding with the gold to form a heavy amalgam that is then easily separated from the other minerals. It follows therefore, that if mercury is used as a mechanism of concentration, producing concentrates of gold ores […]

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