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Minengold

English translation: gold ore

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German term or phrase:Minengold
English translation:gold ore
Entered by: jccantrell

11:09 May 1, 2013
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mining & Minerals / Gems / Gold mining
German term or phrase: Minengold
I'm translating a text on the impact of gold mining on the environment and this term keeps cropping up. It is defined in a footnote as follows:

"Minengold setzt sich zusammen aus verschiedenen Mineralien und Metallen und ist demzufolge kein reines, raffiniertes Gold."

Is there a standard English term for this?

Thanks,
Rachel
Rachel Ward
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:02
gold ore
Explanation:
How I would know it.
The link states:
"Types of ore
Gold Nuggets found in Arizona

Gold occurs principally as a native metal, usually alloyed to a greater or lesser extent with silver (as electrum), or sometimes with mercury (as an amalgam). Native gold can occur as sizeable nuggets, as fine grains or flakes in alluvial deposits, or as grains or microscopic particles embedded in other rocks.

Ores in which gold occurs in chemical composition with other elements are comparatively rare. They include calaverite, sylvanite, nagyagite, petzite and krennerite."

They have a picture of gold ore on the link.
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jccantrell
United States
Local time: 06:02
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Thanks jc
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3 +2mined gold
transatgees
3 +2gold ore
jccantrell
3mined gold
Michael Martin, MA


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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
mined gold


Explanation:
i.e. gold obtained by mining as distinct from alluvial gold which is found in existing or ancient river beds on or near the surface and takes the form of small particles of pure gold or (if the prospector is very lucky) gold nuggets.
The gold has to be extracted from the gold ore taken from the mine. This takes the form of crushing the ore into a fine powder before the gold can be removed. This latter process sometimes took (and perhaps in some places still takes) the form of dissolving the tiny gold particles in mercury, Perhaps this is one of the factors discussed in your text on the environmental impact of gold mining (along with the vast amounts of "spoil" i.e. waste materials which have to be disposed of, not to mention the huge craters in the earth's surface created by some forms of gold mining, as in Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

transatgees
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:02
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Martin, MA: Yes - you first, I think.
5 mins
agree  Ramey Rieger (X): first come, first serve.
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
mined gold


Explanation:
There are other terms such as gold ore or placer gold but they are too specific for our purposes.

Example from link below:

"Newly-mined gold is not the only source of physical gold onto the market, and in fact accounts for just over 60% of supply. Due to its high value, gold is rarely destroyed and some 161,000 tons of gold (approximately 65 years of new mine supply at current levels) is estimated to exist in the form of jewellery, official sector gold holdings (central bank reserves) and private investment. "


    Reference: http://www.anglogold.com/subwebs/informationforinvestors/rep...
Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 09:02
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
gold ore


Explanation:
How I would know it.
The link states:
"Types of ore
Gold Nuggets found in Arizona

Gold occurs principally as a native metal, usually alloyed to a greater or lesser extent with silver (as electrum), or sometimes with mercury (as an amalgam). Native gold can occur as sizeable nuggets, as fine grains or flakes in alluvial deposits, or as grains or microscopic particles embedded in other rocks.

Ores in which gold occurs in chemical composition with other elements are comparatively rare. They include calaverite, sylvanite, nagyagite, petzite and krennerite."

They have a picture of gold ore on the link.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_extraction
jccantrell
United States
Local time: 06:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thanks jc

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lancashireman: Strangely, both the other contributors substantiated their proposals with quotes that included the term.
2 hrs
agree  Edith Kelly
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