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<blockquote data-quote="AussieChris" data-source="post: 535184" data-attributes="member: 4915"><p>Mitchells Creek notorious for mercury amalgam and sure tons of silver came from Sunny Corner but silver rarely forms as a nugget, it's usually in ore.</p><p></p><p>The amalgam, however, sometimes you find big globs of the stuff rolling around in your pans, probably hints to how close to an old stamper you might be. A friend of mine was just throwing it all away, I tend to keep it out of curiosity. </p><p></p><p>Certainly, don't want to pick it up with your main snuffer, once mercury hits gold it breaks the lattice bonds and forms an alloy like the T-1000 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />layful: . </p><p></p><p>I have a few vials full of the stuff, I'm not 100% sure of the process to extract it, nitric acid, retort? Super dangerous.</p><p></p><p>Very cool seeing the gold up close like that :goldpan:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AussieChris, post: 535184, member: 4915"] Mitchells Creek notorious for mercury amalgam and sure tons of silver came from Sunny Corner but silver rarely forms as a nugget, it's usually in ore. The amalgam, however, sometimes you find big globs of the stuff rolling around in your pans, probably hints to how close to an old stamper you might be. A friend of mine was just throwing it all away, I tend to keep it out of curiosity. Certainly, don't want to pick it up with your main snuffer, once mercury hits gold it breaks the lattice bonds and forms an alloy like the T-1000 :playful: . I have a few vials full of the stuff, I'm not 100% sure of the process to extract it, nitric acid, retort? Super dangerous. Very cool seeing the gold up close like that :goldpan: [/QUOTE]
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