My Guyana El Dorado – How we get the gold – Guyana Times ...
"Gold is a metal that occurs in a natural state in the crust of the earth. We get minerals from two sources – it''s either grown or mined. Mining is the extraction of minerals, and the demand and scarcity of it determines the price for it. Gold is four times heavier than iron, and that is a property that is used in the extraction of gold.