In Australia and NZ, piles of tailings - the waste from the mining rather than the smelting process - were also called "mullock" piles. Here in Zild, when the price of gold shot up during the 1980s several small companies began reprocessing the tailings from the 19thC gold mines and did quite nicely, thank you. One Australian company also began working over ground which had been mined alluvially in Otago (Zild) during the gold rush and also did quite well while the price of gold remained over $300, but aren't doing quite so well now that the price has dropped to about $250. A marginal operation!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...