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Gold Mining Area Reports a Blast Which Kills 59 in Africa

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 February 21, 2022 This blast occurred in Burkina  Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa. It is bordered by Mali to the northwest,  by Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, and Togo and Ghana to the south.  Ivory coast is to the Southwest.  A large explosion in the proximity of a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 and hurt in excess of 100 other souls. It is believed that the explosion was caused by chemicals for treating gold being stocked there.  The  gold  recovery  chemicals are  like lime, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide and sulfuric acid  are used  for adjusting slurry pH; sodium sulfide used  for activation; water glass and phosphate  are used  for dispersion; flocculation and starch  are used  for flocculation. The first blast happened around 2 p.m., and  more explosions followed. Burkina Faso is the fastest-growing gold producer in Africa. Current...

FYI - No Promises, But for Info Only Here are Alabama Gold Sites Characterized as Small

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This map may be useful to those in Alabama looking for sites to prospect or an idea of the surrounding area. I ran across this on a random search. If it helps locals, all the better. Good luck! https://digitalalabama.com/gold-in-alabama/alabama-gold-map/11958

Golden Dawn Minerals Inc. in Early Intentions of Identifying Canadian Gold Skarn

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Based on VTEM geophysical survey of this site at Greenwood Precious Metals project circa southeastern BC.  In similar testing, major new discoveries have been made. The property is permitted for drilling. The purpose of this post is to reveal the intentions of the project which is  to identify conductive areas to target a major copper-gold skarn deposit and/or a porphyry-type copper-gold deposit.   Read more:  https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/airborne-survey-highlights-golden-dawn-phoenix-copper-gold-mine#ixzz7KXoQvc4q

Stock Market Up, Gold and Silver No Change, Hold on to Your Hats

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I found this interesting. Check out the most searched websites. Check out #79. There are a lot of people looking for a place to put their money.  https://ahrefs.com/blog/most-visited-websites/ Have a great week! 

Opening a New Gold Mine - An Expensive Proposition with Possible Big Returns - Rise Gold of California

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 There are hundreds, if not thousands of old abandoned gold mines in the United States. Many still contain veins of gold.  the question is, can a mine produce a profit from these veins. One of these old sites is Rise Gold. In 2017 a corporations bought the old mine because they believed it meant economic sense. The mine last produced gold in 1956. But due to the fact that gold had a fixed price ($35) set by the U.S. government, it made little sense to continue operations.  Day to day expenses associated with operations exceeded the price per ounce of gold. It is easy for us today to see that gold at $35 an ounce wasn't much to compensate a mining company what with labor costs, machines costs, regulation costs, and the cost of borrowing money. Now conditions have changed. We have experienced a pandemic, rising inflation, and the uncertainty of Fed policy. Having lowered interest rates, the Fed has helped the lure of gold (and silver) and increased interest in the precious ...

Children's Alphabet Slide Show A -J With Clipart - FYI

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Aussie Gold Hunters, A Series Produced by Electric Pictures and Shown on Discovery Channel Starting in 2016

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 Aussie Gold Hunters is a blast.  Great TV episodes for those interested in less than corporate gold prospecting. Check out how it is done down under. These are fantastic videos showing folks today going back to the old gold grounds hunting for riches. See the end for freebies.   Here are two links to streaming locations in case you already subscribe. https://stream.how/show/aussie-gold-hunters?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Search&t_source=64&utm_campaign=3875&gclid=Cj0KCQiAosmPBhCPARIsAHOen-MqsMimUt8X5wpHcOerDflQABtjmLpEQQCr49XxBOsat4ZvhhiUa8caAuTXEALw_wcB https://movies.guide/show/aussie-gold-hunters?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Search&t_source=64&utm_campaign=3869&gclid=Cj0KCQiAosmPBhCPARIsAHOen-PwleljO03yPDcYwzcrizKVTNJVp_rNA10bJ_0Nof1HyOi7jSbvaZoaAqOdEALw_wcB If you want some free videos that are absolutely wonderful check out these 12 references on YouTube.  These are 12+ series videos from Aussie Gold Hunters. Enjoy!! https:...