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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="TenOunce Tone" data-source="post: 26034" data-attributes="member: 288"><p>I read a book called Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idreiss (spelling), great book on prospecting first published in the 50's I think, get your hands on a copy if you can find it. In the book he mentions the use of mercury as an amalgam and how to separate the two.. </p><p></p><p>He describes placing the amalgamated gold and mercury in a piece of fine cloth, creating a bulb of the cloth with the amalgam and then twisting the cloth to tighten the cloth, there by squeezing the mercury from the gold into a jar for re use. </p><p></p><p>If you did this underwater with gloves on you would lessen the risk, also if you are suing it, get a suitable breathing mask, a carbon filter one might be ok but buy from a reputable safety product vendor please.</p><p></p><p>Cheers, Tone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TenOunce Tone, post: 26034, member: 288"] I read a book called Prospecting for Gold by Ion Idreiss (spelling), great book on prospecting first published in the 50's I think, get your hands on a copy if you can find it. In the book he mentions the use of mercury as an amalgam and how to separate the two.. He describes placing the amalgamated gold and mercury in a piece of fine cloth, creating a bulb of the cloth with the amalgam and then twisting the cloth to tighten the cloth, there by squeezing the mercury from the gold into a jar for re use. If you did this underwater with gloves on you would lessen the risk, also if you are suing it, get a suitable breathing mask, a carbon filter one might be ok but buy from a reputable safety product vendor please. Cheers, Tone [/QUOTE]
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