Gold Prospecting In Alabama


After gold was discovered in Georgia prospectors began working in Alabama and had a "Gold Rush" following the discovery of gold in 1830 in Chilton County and The first major strike occurred in 1830 at Blue and Chestnut Creeks. From 1830 until about 1990, Gold in Alabama produced nearly 80,000 ounces of gold. The gold prospecting in alabama most important found at Cleburne, Tallapoosa, Clay and Randolph Counties. Only Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties produced more than 20,000 ounces of gold. Gold has been found in both lode and placer deposits, with the majority coming from area in the east central part of the state up next to the Georgia border.

Gold in Alabama has been found throughout Talladega, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Coosa, Clay, Chilton, Elmore, Cleburne, and Randolph Counties. In Talladega County, the Riddle and Story Mines both produced lode gold, with placers found in Talladega Creek.


Gold Processing at Boddington Mine

Gold processing plant at Boddington mine

The Boddington Gold Mine is a gold and copper mine the largest gold mine in the country, located about 130km south-east of Perth in Western Australia and 17 km northwest of Boddington

The Boddington deposits were previously mined between 1987-2001 for the production of 6.1 Moz of gold. The current mining operation is of significantly larger scale, producing 696 000 ounces of gold in 2014, along with 69 million pounds of copper.

Built on the footprint of the original Boddington gold mine, the operation involves open cut mining from two large pits. The process flow sheet at Newmont Boddington Gold (NBG) comprises primary crushing, closed circuit secondary and tertiary crushing using High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR), ball milling and hydro-cyclone classification to generate a milled product with a P80 of 150 µm. The ground ore is then floated to produce a gold rich copper concentrate for filtration and sale to overseas smelters. Flotation tailings are then leached for further gold recovery. The ore processing rate is approximately 35 million tonnes per annum. Typical head grade is approximately 0.8 gram per tonne gold and 0.11 per cent copper.

Simple Survey Gold Prospecting

Survey the location of the gold
Gold prospecting is the act of searching for new gold deposits. Methods used vary with the type of deposit sought and the resources of the prospector. Although traditionally a commercial activity, in some developed countries placer gold prospecting has also become a popular outdoor recreation.

In the process of finding an area that has the gold prospecting, location survey process is very important. So that we can know the area contains a potential gold metal or not.

All gold mining either large or small mine to search for the existence of gold deposits in an area through a survey activities, either the survey the rock type or rock formation, and characteristics survey of the soil

Survey and identification process to find the location gold prospecting this is also done by surveyors in the world's largest gold mine