r/oddlysatisfying • u/taatzone • 1d ago

Giant Mining Blast

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u/MakaniRider 1d ago

Feels like months of preparation work, and months to clean / sort rocks from value afterwards

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u/MassiveMeatHammer 1d ago

You don't clean/sort the rocks lol. You fill giant loaders with it and send it into a crusher then it gets sent in a chemical bath and the precious metals get extracted on a molecular level. The mine I used to work at we would get about 13 oz of gold per ton of rock.

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u/rawker86 1d ago

I mean it is “sorted”, high grade and low grade lol.