Gold mining is the removal of gold from the ground. There are several techniques and processes by which gold may be extracted from the earth.
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Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or mining:
“After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)