Throughout the world there are mines that are extracting precious metals out of the ground and sending them to gold refiners where they can be purified. Taking the lumps of rock and ore that are mixed together in veins the precious metal refiners are able to extract the gold from the rest of the rock by melting it down.
Once in a liquid form the gold can be poured and cast into ingots or molded to form chains and other jewelry. By superheating the raw minerals to their boiling point gold refiners are able separate the rock and purify the precious metal to its full glory.
As gold is not always as shiny and brilliant when it is unearthed as it is once it has been refined most people do not recognize the valuable mineral if they were to stumble upon it while hiking. Running in veins through the rock the precious ore is mixed with all kinds of material that has to be separated and sifted before the gold receives its luster.
In many instances only the dull yellow tint of a rock reveals the gold that is hidden beneath the earth. Through the process of refining the dirt and other minerals fall away until all that remains in pure gold. However, most of the minerals that are surrounding the vein of gold contain other precious metals refiners can use in their work. Platinum, palladium, rhodium and silver can be found alongside the gold
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