Jewelry and fine goods
Largest demand block globally. Concentration in India and China. Alloyed with silver, copper and palladium for different karats and tones.
Properties
Atomic and physical data.
Sources: IUPAC, USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, public metallurgical literature.
Industrial uses
What gold is used for, today.
Demand distributed across four major vectors, with composition varying by economic and geopolitical cycle — but never zeroing any of them.
In mining
Why some gold ends up in tailings.
No process recovers all of the contained metal. In gold operations, part of the metal goes to tailings: very fine particles, gold occluded in sulfides such as pyrite and arsenopyrite, or material that responded poorly to the route used at the time.
Tailings from older operations, predating current flotation and reagent technology, may hold relevant residual grades. Whether that grade justifies a project depends on characterization and on the conditions of each asset.
How Green Mining assesses
Characterization first, route second.
The assessment starts from mineralogy: how the gold is present, which minerals it is associated with and in which size range it concentrates. From there, Green Mining defines the route configuration and measures, in testwork, how that material responds. On the gold route, the process does not use cyanide.
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Gold assets.
Asset owner
Gold tailings or low-grade deposit.
The preliminary assessment starts from the information available on the asset: location, type, estimated volume and history. No cost, no commitment.
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