gold mining
Digging for treasure
Gold mining is the extraction of gold from the earth, whether from surface deposits, underground veins, or riverbeds.
Methods range from individual prospectors panning streams to massive industrial operations.
The term extends to any effort to extract value from a rich source: The company's gold mining of customer data raised privacy concerns.
- sluiceGated water conduit
- prospectorOne seeking valuable deposits
- oreMetal-bearing rock
- mineOre excavation site
- mother lodePrincipal ore deposit
forty-niner · pan · deposits · pickaxe · paydirt · dig · tailings · placer · Klondike · stake a claim · bonanza · quarry · claim · creek · dredge · strike · strike it rich · pay dirt
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- US Miningprospector, prospecting, mine shaft, open pit, smelting
- African economicsGDP, GDP growth, foreign investment, trade deficit, trade deficits
- African economysafari tourism, mobile banking, cocoa farming, oil production, cotton farming
- African miningDe Beers, Anglo American, Kimberley, blood diamonds
gold miningland reclamation
Creating ground from water
ecological restoration · reforestation · habitat restoration · rewilding · conservation
gold, golden, mineral, mining, miner, minerals, mined, golds, gilded