Tuesday 29 March 2016

What Is Gold Mining?

What Is Gold Mining?

  • In 2004 the value that the New Zealand mining made 1,142 million.

  •  The first person who discovered gold mining in New Zealand was Charles Ring in 1852.

  • Gold mining is mining gold ores from the ground

  • More than 90 percent of all gold ever used has been mined since 1848,when gold was discovered at sutter's mill,California,sparking the greatest gold of all time.

  • Gold mining is a global business with operations on every continent, except Antarctica.

  • The era from 1868 to 1871 were the bonanza years for the town with gold production topping one million pounds sterling at its peak. Official figures for production of the Thames Mines recorded a yield of 2,327,619oz bullion with the value at $845 million.

  • Gold is a chemical with symbol Au.It’s a bright yellow shiny and lumpy when you first find it but then it is molded into circle gold coins.

WALT-Write 7 facts about gold mining in your own words.
Todays tasks was to find 7 different definitions for what gold mining means.I went on 4 different websites including the one our teacher let us go on.

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