GMP - Manual for Training Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Miners
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Table of Content
Introduction to Effective Training Strategies............................................1
Who are successful trainers?................................................................1
What is a successful curriculum?.........................................................3
How do we recognize successful implementation?..............................6
Basic knowledge for trainers................................................................6
Gold Ores, Mineralogy and Liberation.....................................................7
Gold occurrence....................................................................................7
Gold minerals.......................................................................................8
How to find gold deposits.....................................................................9
Gold liberation....................................................................................10
Using a small ball mill to investigate gold liberation.........................12
Basic knowledge for miners...............................................................14
Crushing and Grinding............................................................................16
Why crushing and grinding is important............................................16
Crushing.............................................................................................18
Grinding..............................................................................................25
Basic knowledge for miners...............................................................32
Gravity Concentration.............................................................................34
Introduction........................................................................................34
Sluices................................................................................................37
Good sluice design.............................................................................38
Feed preparation.................................................................................41
Sluice design and construction...........................................................42
Trapping mechanisms.........................................................................43
Optimal slurry flow velocity...............................................................46
Centrifugal concentrators...................................................................47
Panning...............................................................................................49
Different kinds of gold pans...............................................................50
Basic knowledge for miners...............................................................53
Gold Amalgamation................................................................................55
Mercury, a brief history......................................................................55
Mercury uses and properties...............................................................56
Forming gold amalgam.......................................................................57
Improving amalgamation....................................................................61
Amalgam-heavy minerals separation.................................................63
Separating excess mercury from amalgam.........................................64
Hotspots..............................................................................................66
Mercury recovery by retorting............................................................67
Classical retorts..................................................................................70
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