of mining that gold. but geologists think there could be far more gold still to be discovered, perhaps even under my feet. how many miles of tunnels have you got here? so we have 1.2 kilometres. a hundred people work here. among them, mine geologist rachel paul, whose job it is to chart that seam of gold right through these rocks. so the vein itself. so it s a quartz vein, which runs through the mountain and it s been here for 408 million years. and you can almost see it above our heads right now. so it s a quartz vein and it has sulfides in it. you can see it a little bit closer in my hand. so we re looking for quartz vein, we re looking for different types of mottling and different shear structures. in a long soundproofed shed just below the mine, machines crush the quartz and rock to get at the gold. before the end of the year, the goal is to bring out 2,000 ounces of gold every month, worth millions of pounds. but they ve been prospecting far beyond this site and think more seams o
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