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The recovery of metals has been a challenge for man, which is developed
almost in parallel with its evolution. So is known many phases of human
knowledge according to the use of metals (or minerals) as the stone age, a
little more evolved when speaking of the iron age copper and bronze. The
method more rudimentary without doubt has been simple manual selection of
the materials of interest.
The ancient cultures developed a high degree of knowledge in the recovery of
metals, mainly gold, through the implementation of operations of concentration
due to the high density of this metal mainly in rivers (alluvium) but also by