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Mercury/Gold amalgam at Oallen Forde...
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 647365" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Correct grubstake. They would cut the potato in half and put amalgam in a hole in the centre and re-join the halves with wire. Then into the coals. The mercury separates as vapour into the spud, but they would pull it out and put it in a goldpan with water, Open the potato and take out the gold in the Centre. Then mash the spud up in the water and the mercury would collect in the gold pan. Not hot enough to completeley drive the mercury vapour out of the spud (but they could always have used alfoil )<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>When I was a teenager I used to pan a lot and use mercury and I stored the amalgam (which would crystallize). I then left home, worked throughout Australia for years, then a year in Asia and Europe, then 11 years in central Africa, then a few years in the USA and Canada. I came home when my parents died and cleared out the house and found all this strange crystalline material that I could not identify. So I chucked it in the bin.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 647365, member: 4386"] Correct grubstake. They would cut the potato in half and put amalgam in a hole in the centre and re-join the halves with wire. Then into the coals. The mercury separates as vapour into the spud, but they would pull it out and put it in a goldpan with water, Open the potato and take out the gold in the Centre. Then mash the spud up in the water and the mercury would collect in the gold pan. Not hot enough to completeley drive the mercury vapour out of the spud (but they could always have used alfoil )😂 When I was a teenager I used to pan a lot and use mercury and I stored the amalgam (which would crystallize). I then left home, worked throughout Australia for years, then a year in Asia and Europe, then 11 years in central Africa, then a few years in the USA and Canada. I came home when my parents died and cleared out the house and found all this strange crystalline material that I could not identify. So I chucked it in the bin..... [/QUOTE]
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