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Gold - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The color of solid gold as well as of the intensely colored, often purple, colloidal solutions that can be made from it is caused by the fact that the plasmon frequency of this element lies in the visible range, which causes red and yellow light to be reflected and blue light to be absorbed. |
 | | Gold ore grades may be as little as 0.5 g/1000 kg (0.5 ppm) on average in large easily mined deposits, typical ore grades in open-pit mines are 1 - 5 g/1000 kg (1-5 ppm), ore grades in underground or hard rock mines are usually at least 3 g/1000 kg (3 ppm) on average. |
 | | Gold is extracted from alluvium ores by techniques of placer mining and from hard rock ores by initially crushing and grinding the ore and then by one or more of the following techniques; gravity separation, flotation, cyanidation, amalgamation, chlorination, roasting, bioleaching or pressure oxidation (autoclaving). |
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