Gold mining involves extracting gold from placer deposits (in rivers, streams, gravel, etc.) or hard rock formations. Common methods include placer mining, panning, hard rock mining (both underground and open-pit), hydraulic mining, dredging, cyanide leaching and mercury amalgamation. Each has trade-offs: some are simple/manual like panning; others use heavy machinery or chemicals. Environmental impact and cost tend to increase with more intensive methods. India has gold deposits in regions like Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Karnataka etc., and is working to boost domestic gold production.

Gold refining involves a five-stage process: Pre-melt (melting dore bars with varied purity), Chlorination (using chlorine gas to remove non-gold metals), Degolding (adding soda ash so gold separates into a silver-gold alloy), Electrolysis (using an electric current in acid/gold chloride solution to reach ~99.99% purity), and Final Pour (casting refined gold into bars or granules). The article also explains why refining is necessary (to assess purity, remove impurities) and describes how both scrap gold and raw ore are processed via fire assay and other methods for commercial use.

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