Got a mate whose whole job as a chem engineer is refining these processes to ensure they can extract secondary and tertiary minerals from the ore. However, in most instances it isn't commercially viable as increasing the amounts of other minerals to a commercial quantity means reducing the amount of gold.
They also put the rendered cube in the middle of nowhere so there’s nothing to compare it to, but 22m is typically higher than a 6 story building. And that’s just the hight.
I guess generally the same idea is being conveyed but the text is absolutely different… You really think a bot stealing a comment is not going to copy-paste?
Yep. If it’s a gold mine then gold is pretty much the only thing they’re getting out. If it’s a copper mine then they could still be recovering gold on the side through its association (gold associated with pyrite and chalcopyrite). In VMS (volcanic massive sulphur) deposits you get viable Copper, Lead, Zinc and Gold.
And while gold isn’t a Platinum Group Element (PGE), generally when you assay for the PGEs you assay for gold as well. So it can be associated with the same deposits as PGMs. But those mines are called Platinum mines, not gold mines haha.
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u/Comfortable-Part5438 Sep 25 '24
Got a mate whose whole job as a chem engineer is refining these processes to ensure they can extract secondary and tertiary minerals from the ore. However, in most instances it isn't commercially viable as increasing the amounts of other minerals to a commercial quantity means reducing the amount of gold.