Types of Placer Wash Plants | West Coast Placer
It's the part of the wash plant that catches the gold and other dense material. Placer concentrators all use gravity and inertia to separate material based on density. Gold is very dense, it has a density of 19,300 kg/m³. That means that one cubic meter of gold would weigh 19,300 kilograms (19.3 metric tons). ... Not very mobile: Few ...