4. Economics of gold mining
4.1 Cost of operations
The unit operations taken into account for the calculation of costs are given in the table 2 .
Table 3 shows operating costs as a function of daily ore tonnage. There is an essentially linear decrease in processing costs as tonnage rises from 500 to 5,000 t/d.
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