Dump slag dust products of man-made deposits of Norilsk region are a promising source of precious metals. Methods for concentrating precious and base metals in sediment cores of multiponds slag products are studied.

The article presents the results of laboratory studies to determine the fineness of gold ore in the root of one of the fields in the Ural, the direct method. The gold content in ore is low and gold – finely disseminated (d < 0,1 mm). The possibility of using this hub for Nelson and laboratory micropaner with relatively small sample mass. We obtain a high grade of gold (871,1).