我国从夏、商时起就开始采金了,到春秋战国时代黄金的开采、冶炼已相当普遍了。在《尚书·禹贡》一书中有荆州“厥贡·惟金三品”的记载,表明两湖地区在远古时代就是我国金、银铜的产地。《管子》中有“黄金起于汝汉之右洿”《韩非子》中也有“荆南之地,丽水之中生金”等语。 和大多数国家一样,我国也是从采淘砂金开始的。古代人们根据砂金矿赋存地质条件的差异,分为“水沙中”淘洗的砂金和“平地掘井”开采的砂金两种。“水沙中”淘洗的砂金古代亦称“水金”,即现代河床或溪沟中 Since the summer and the dawn of commerce, China started to collect gold, and the gold mining and smelting in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods have become quite widespread. In “Book Yugong” a book Jingzhou “Jue Gong, but the three Mint” records show that the two lakes in ancient times is China’s gold, silver and copper origin. “Pipe” in the “golden from Ruhan right 洿” “Han Feizi” also has “Jingnan land, Lishui Zhongshengjin” and other languages. Like most countries, our country started from mining gold scouring gold. Ancient people according to geological differences in gold and gold deposits, divided into “sand” panning gold and “digging wells” mining gold two. “Water and sediment” panning gold ancient also known as “water”, that is, modern riverbed or in the ditch