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When miners find rock containing mineral ore, they first extract the rock from the earth. ... The rock is then crushed by powerful machinery. Metal is extracted from the crushed ore by one of two major methods: smelting or electrolysis. Smelting uses heat to separate the valuable metal from the rest of the ore.
Ore processing consists of the following stages:
- crushing and grinding of the ore.
- addition of process water (generally decanted from the tailings pond) to form a slurry.
- addition of lime to the ore, and cyanide solution to the slurry, to leach the gold and silver into solution.