Forms of location and prospects of gold mining potential in natural and technogenic mineral formations of the Western Urals

In the process of technogenesis during placers mining, rocks and minerals extracted from the bowels change their composition and properties, adapting to new environmental conditions. Release, dissolution, transfer, regeneration and reduction (coarsening) of gold-bearing phases occur. The authors studied some parameters of the distribution and forms of the location of gold and platinoids in different mines of the Urals, Siberia, Canada, and Uzbekistan. Fine gold particles in technogenic placers have been investigated. Recommendations for managing the formation of high concentrations of gold in technogenic and mineral formations have been developed.