the most useful metal.

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Facts about gold

The name is the Anglo-Saxon word for the metal and the symbol comes from the Latin aurum, gold. It was discovered about 3000 BC. Its chemical symbol is Au. It is a good conductor of electricity and heat. Gold is malleable enough for just 1 gram to be hammered into a sheet 1 square meter in size. It can also be made so thin that it appears transparent. Its boiling point is 1064 oC and melts at 2836 oC.

Extraction of gold
Hard rock mining Hydraulic mining Placer mining

Hard rock mining

- It is a form of mining in which miners excavate hard minerals by smashing through the rocks.

Hydraulic mining
- It is a form of mining in which miners uses a pressurized water jets to dislodge rock material.

Placer mining
- It is a form of mining in which gold is retrieved by panning, metal detecting, and sluicing.