A metallurgist will show a way to collect the extraordinary facts and ideas that constantly rotate around the gold, obviously those aspects will be complemented with personal research and experiences that are graphically alive at different moments. Now, the idea is to restore in a modest way, the prospecting and extraction processes related to gold production and more now when this metal has a special place in the world.

There are many processes and prospecting ideas. The most predominant organizations are usually composed of people we might call researches. They would not like the more accurate label of prospectors. Scientists believe their traditional knowledge is unique, explain everything and provide enough wisdom to make the rest of men irrelevant. However, nowadays, there is a link between prospectors and scientists because the work developed is influenced directly or indirectly by theirself. In general, science provides interesting asides but they must be practiced. Gold extraction is not a new business and its dynamic plays a very important role in the modern life.

The keys to understand the gold extraction are metallurgy and common sense. There is a remarkably close connection between practical experience and metallurgy. This relationship is contributing to develop a modern metal extraction and industrial technology. Many people will see the topics to be explained as complex. Even today, in this age of science, the subjects of prospection and metallurgy remain fused with admiration. It is only in today’s extraction processes that the passion and the scientific knowledge allowed to reach a marvelous development on gold metallurgy.

The extraction of gold has been done with enthusiasm and perseverance and none can deny this fact due to gold is one of the most attractive metals and new ideas and scientific consideration will appear. That is the progress. Throughout history, many people have been involved in gold extraction processes. Few have found the wisdom to develop fantastic and innovative developments due to it is a process and not an end in itself. The reader should therefore regard the information as metallurgical base station at the foot of the highest mountain of wisdom. It seeks to understand the principles related to real extractive processes. In this way, prospectors, operators and scientists will find useful all the information showed on gold metallurgy.