Gold collectionWhile the technology is still evolving, gravity separation is helping recover more gold than ever before

While the technology is still evolving, gravity separation is helping recover more gold than ever before

By Rosalind Stefanac

January 10, 2023

The new Frontier Bowl by Sepro Mineral Systems features a quasi-parabolic riffle profile. Courtesy of Sepro Mineral Systems

The ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, who lived between 60 BCE and 30 BCE, once wrote an account of gold mining activities that had been carried out in Nubia, in eastern Egypt, during the time of the early pharaohs.

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