gold production
Extracting precious metal
Gold production is the extraction and refining of gold from ore or other sources.
The term covers the entire process from mining through processing: Global gold production reached record levels last year.
It also refers to the total amount produced: South Africa once led the world in gold production.
- smeltingExtracting metal from ore
- mercury pollutionToxic elemental discharge
- electrolysisCurrent-induced ionic separation
- commodity tradingBuying and selling raw materials
- assayCompositional evaluation procedure
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- Gold Rushgoldfield, prospectors, sluice, forty-niners, Sutter's Mill
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
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