Exploration: Like all metals, gold mostly sits in the earth waiting to be mined. This also means it's worth mining the metal because you can't just dig a hole and leave it behind once you're done. To get started mining gold, the most common way to find gold is prospecting. Prospecting is mainly carried out by a range of different metal detectors, these metal detectors represent a scientific and technological advancement in gold prospecting. They provide accurate readings and indicate where the gold is based on the average depth of the ore. The advancement is that it is much less strenuous work than using a pan like our ancestors did during the Australian gold rush and many people find fool's gold (copper) and think it is gold. The gold we are looking for dates back to the Archean period (3.5 billion years ago) and given its rarity makes it quite valuable. Mining: Before all these mines are created, the company must create a living environment for people and families, without these many workers would not even attempt to work in the mine. Some requirements are basic; everyone must have a home, a sustainable food supply that must meet the dietary standards of not only the workers but also everyone else there, a supply of water for obvious reasons, and recreational activities for when the workers have a break and need something to do instead of just standing there and watching. . Science has an important role in the phase of creating a mining community because everything must be economically beneficial and have a mutual agreement with all other landowners, whether they own the land or a specific ethnic group, without this agreement no mine can move forward. forward. Once the mine is completed, you can't just have a gaping hole in the ground, environmental experts have to carry out an investigation... middle of paper... the highest purity of gold, but it carries risks of the damage to the worker. Shares the scientific use of an electrolytic process. Gold is used as the cathode and hydrochloric acid is the electrolyte. This is where the danger and risk come in: hydrochloric acid is a corrosive substance that eats away at human tissue and can create potential damage to respiratory organs, so workers must be fully equipped for their own safety. The gold is dissolved at the anode and the pure gold travels through the acid by ion transfer, the non-pure gold is then plated onto the cathode. The other metals that could be present in this are silver, copper and platinum. They can all be easily removed at this stage. This procedure is used on a very large industrial scale and involves high installation costs due to the amount of gold that must be permanently dissolved in the electrolyte.