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Download or read book Gold and Other Precious Metals written by Claudia Gasparrini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A view of gold and other precious metal extractions from a new and wider angle, taking in both the earth and the metallurgical sciences. To name but a small number of the topics covered: - Occurrences of gold and silver minerals in their ores - Photomicrographs of refractory and amenable minerals/ores - The use of irregular gold and silver distributions for efficient planning of the extraction process - Microanalytical techniques - Descriptions of uranium and many base metals for comparison. Written with a broad audience in mind, from the manager of operations to the metallurgist, for the field geologist or other earth scientist, and for the professor and student alike.