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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
How do I recover my fine gold, that the Blue Bowl won’t capture?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pogo" data-source="post: 637720" data-attributes="member: 13854"><p>If your not keen on the whole mercury process.</p><p></p><p>try floating your gold off.</p><p></p><p>gold will float, it’s hydroscopic.</p><p></p><p>try using water in a small pan, no rinse aid or detergent.</p><p></p><p>very gently swish the water with About the amount of water you would use at the final stage of panning. The surface tension of the water should float the tiny gold particles, if there are enough of them they will start to clump together.</p><p></p><p>pick them up with a tiny paintbrush.</p><p></p><p>it’s painstaking but it does work..</p><p></p><p>watch the last few minutes of this to see how it works.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]A9A-1Rj2BXo[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>I now basically do this process and the when I’ve panned down to about a teaspoon of super heavy sand and tiny gold I put it in a vial with a tiny blob of mercury, about the size of a match head. I’m still on my first blob, it’s now almost the size of a pea with the gold it has picked up. Each time I have some more super fines I pan of the mercury blob, ditch the old sands and add the new sands and blob in the vial.</p><p></p><p>I got the little bit of mercury I have from an old motion detector/ tilt switch and an old mercury thermometer and from amalgam from crevicing panning and sluicing alluvials where the OTs had been using mercury.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]144[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pogo, post: 637720, member: 13854"] If your not keen on the whole mercury process. try floating your gold off. gold will float, it’s hydroscopic. try using water in a small pan, no rinse aid or detergent. very gently swish the water with About the amount of water you would use at the final stage of panning. The surface tension of the water should float the tiny gold particles, if there are enough of them they will start to clump together. pick them up with a tiny paintbrush. it’s painstaking but it does work.. watch the last few minutes of this to see how it works. [MEDIA=youtube]A9A-1Rj2BXo[/MEDIA] I now basically do this process and the when I’ve panned down to about a teaspoon of super heavy sand and tiny gold I put it in a vial with a tiny blob of mercury, about the size of a match head. I’m still on my first blob, it’s now almost the size of a pea with the gold it has picked up. Each time I have some more super fines I pan of the mercury blob, ditch the old sands and add the new sands and blob in the vial. I got the little bit of mercury I have from an old motion detector/ tilt switch and an old mercury thermometer and from amalgam from crevicing panning and sluicing alluvials where the OTs had been using mercury. [ATTACH type="full" alt="00CE7DA4-D5FB-4338-AEE1-5DE2D1DC99E8.jpeg"]144[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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