{"id":4019,"date":"2014-02-20T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:38:05","slug":"technology-makes-gold-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=4019","title":{"rendered":"Technology makes gold more accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Allan Seccombe<\/strong>
\nBusiness Day (South Africa)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"barsgold\"<\/a>Using technological advances in machinery, AngloGold Ashanti could unlock 6-million ounces of gold that is currently locked up in areas that are deemed to be unsafe to mine or in thin reefs that are uneconomic to extract.<\/p>\n

AngloGold is at the forefront of driving technological advances to extract gold safely and, it hopes, cheaply from its deep-level mines in South Africa, where costs have ballooned and cut heavily into profits in recent years.<\/p>\n

The technology is basically a boring machine, specially reduced in size, to punch out gold-bearing reefs from sterilised parts of the mine. A simple analogy would be using a pen to poke the ham out of a ham sandwich, and leaving the bread untouched.<\/p>\n

Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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