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Green gold mining product wins grand prize

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Green gold mining product wins grand prize

OroClean, a centrifuge for small scale mining, wins Venture Cup.

And the grand prize of 250,000 DKK.

OroClean's product eliminates the need for mercury in small scale mining. This improves the quality of the gold extracted which increases the sales price and thereby the profitability for the small scale miner.

If the product were to replace the current method of small scale mining on a grand scale it would cut 30 percent off the global mercury pollution.

By Martin Kubert, mk@venturecup.dk

Tagged with country, feature, gold, mercury, miner, mining, oroclean, third world, value, venture cup final 2010, venturecup

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