Gold continues to be in high demand. Besides jewellery, electronics and even medicine, gold is returning as the ultimate backing for currency. Governments, banks, investors continue to flock towards gold. With prices well over $1000, gold has established prominence and attention worldwide. Gold claims for sale offer individuals the opportunity to prospect for it themselves, and investors are performing frenzied searches for mine sale opportunities in newspapers, mining journals and the internet. How do you go about finding the most viable mines?

For those of you interested in gold claims for sale it is good for you to know gold occurs. There are two main gold deposits and mining methods. One is known as “placer” and the other one is known as “lode” or “hardrock” mining. Any mine sale should specify whether the property offers mineral or placer rights. This will determine what type of deposit it is, and what tools should be used to work it.

Placer mining: This form of mining is practiced when gold is found in unconsolidated deposits of soil, sand and gravel from which the gold can be easily separated by using gravity and the pressure of water. Sluices, highbankers and trommels are among popular equipment types for mechanical separation. When searching gold claims for sale, these type of mines are sometime priced accessibly and offer an individual a realistic opportunity to mine gold themselves. These are the appropriate types of properties to pan for gold.

Lode mining: minerals occurring in consolidated (solid) rock are processed by lode mining. This involves stripping, crushing and grinding the rock, often followed by chemical treatment. Less invasive type of lode mining are increasing as well. For example, thermal microwave energy can quite easily separate oil from solid shale, and bacteria’s exist that “eat” minerals such as gold, copper and silver, and convert them from solid form to slurry, which can be pumped out from mineralized seams. Look for information on deposit types when viewing mine sale properties such as hardrock.

Hardrock mining is quite often done by large companies. Following exploration programs to determine the location of economic mineralization. Economic mineralization, whether placer or hardrock, is a deposit of minerals that can be mined profitable. In the case of placer, the sustained price of gold over $800 and the price of diesel fuel has reinvigorated many placer mining properties that were once not as economic. This mostly due to the fact that large, economic placer operations require heavy machinery such as dozers, excavators, soil conveyors and water pumps that all run on fuel. Many placer gold mines will remain viable beyond 2013 for these reasons.

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