Gold is a popular metal in the world because the characteristics, properties and composition. This metal has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history. The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.
Gold Ore occurs often in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum) and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides).In 2014 a total of 183,600 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history. This is equivalent to 9513 m3 of gold.
Many mining companies have exploited gold deposits to make the biggest gold mines in the world, extracting gold ore requires large facilities. Open-pit mining, open-cut mining or opencast mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow. The result of using this technique is a huge visible scar on the earth surface
Here Is A New List Of The Top 5 The Largest Open Pit Gold Mines In The World
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