HOW GOLD IS MINED AND PROCESSED AND HOW YOU CAN MINE GOLD YOUR SELF! BY SETH A SEARS Gold mining has changed dramatically in the last 150 years. In the 1850s gold rush days, a person could pan or sluice in a stream for small nuggets or even find fist size nuggets of gold. Today fine gold is more abundant than large or even small nuggets. The majority of the fine gold is found in various ores and minerals such as granite, sulfides, schist, limonite, mariposite, iron pyrite, cooprite, chalcopyrite, quartz, slate, iron rich soil ( red soil), basalt and more. Fine gold can be a large-scale government funded activity that involves a lot of geological research, sampling, tests, and educated men and women. Gold mining can also be as simple as a few garden tools, knowledge, and a gold pan of kitchen pans. Magnification loupe is necessary to see the fine particles of gold traped in the rocks To get fine gold out of rock, the rocks are crushed into fine powder. Chemical proce...