balance the various types of gold occurrence in an ore and to predict the gold recovery of an ore or to determine the cause for gold loss in a tail (Zhou and Wang, 2003; Zhou, et al., 2004; Zhou and Cabri, 2004; Zhou et al., 2005; Zhou and Fleming, 2007; Zhou et al., 2009). Here are two examples of this approach: Figure 1 shows native gold (Au ...