Gold mines

So, you want to search for gold ore. How do you identify good gold prospects? If your strategy involves crushing any and every rock you come across, you'll be crushing for the rest of your life and won't find a flake. Here are some simple field tests you can perform to help you narrow your search.

The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. A canyon-size hole populated by house-size trucks, it's large enough to be seen from orbit. Here's what it looks like up close.

Photo about Mining trucks at the Super Pit gold mine, Western Australia. Image of australia, anthropogenic, mining - 23370077

This gold mine tour makes for a history-rich experience you'll never forget!

It's no secret that using a good quality sluice box. Here is the best portable sluice box and the best sluice box for recovering fine gold.

Photographic negative, miners outside a New England gold mine, glass / gelatin emulsion, published by Kerry and Co, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1885-1900

Pictures of GOLD NUGGETS Largest GOLD NUGGETS ever found – experts say.NUGGET SENSATION! Discovery of a gold nugget so huge and heavy it took a crane and 10 workers to move (see photo). The n…

Veins are mineral deposits which form when a preexisting fracture or fissure within a host rock is filled with new mineral material. The de...

Explore pictures of the largest gold nuggets ever uncovered. Our collection of large gold nugget photos reveals the grandeur and extraordinary size of these magnificent gold discoveries.