Abstract
The primary role of gold mining in the economy is wealth creation. Wealth is generated by finding, delineating, and developing economic gold deposits and, then, mining, recovering and selling gold from them. Thus, economic deposits are the focal point of the gold-supply process. The economic characteristics of gold deposits are shaped by their geological features. Gold deposits are initially unknown and, once discovered, are fixed in size and highly variable in quality.
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Mackenzie, B.W. (1993). Economics of gold deposits. In: Foster, R.P. (eds) Gold Metallogeny and Exploration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2128-6_13
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