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Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="MaxGreenman" data-source="post: 47184" data-attributes="member: 1938"><p>well i was out panning and got 1 or 2 nice flakes if gold but i also got a few bits that look like lead. i kept the gold and lead seperate. now my gold is looking grey. i had a go at melting the lead with a soldering iron, only a tiny amount melted. could it be mercury covered gold? can i get excited? if so what way can i lose the mercury without killing myself and te neighbourhood? i dont have acsess to nitric acid and burning it kinda freaks me out if it is mercury. just on a side note my grandfather had a jam jar of mercury and when we were good he would tip it on the carpet and let us gather it up. wondering if he really loved us. or wanted us gone... hmmmm</p><p>thanks in advance</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MaxGreenman, post: 47184, member: 1938"] well i was out panning and got 1 or 2 nice flakes if gold but i also got a few bits that look like lead. i kept the gold and lead seperate. now my gold is looking grey. i had a go at melting the lead with a soldering iron, only a tiny amount melted. could it be mercury covered gold? can i get excited? if so what way can i lose the mercury without killing myself and te neighbourhood? i dont have acsess to nitric acid and burning it kinda freaks me out if it is mercury. just on a side note my grandfather had a jam jar of mercury and when we were good he would tip it on the carpet and let us gather it up. wondering if he really loved us. or wanted us gone... hmmmm thanks in advance [/QUOTE]
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