The mine itself is located on the slopes of a hill called Mount Tenabo, a sacred site for the tribespeople of the Western Shoshone. The process of mining is comparatively simple, and echoes the techniques used by gold miners back in the nineteenth century, albeit at a gargantuan scale. The rocks are blasted out of the earth, crushed and then ground into a fine dust, and eventually mixed with a cyanide solution which helps separate out the gold itself.
