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Gold Prospecting
Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Sunny Corner- Gold, amalgam and silver perhaps?
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<blockquote data-quote="davsgold" data-source="post: 657787" data-attributes="member: 6570"><p>basically if you can break it up with your fingers it is amalgam, (a bit like play doh) and you should be able to mould it back together with you fingers, (do all this with rubber/plastic glove on please) remember mercury is liquid at room temp and just sucks up the gold like magic and holds it, the gold in the mercury wont even look like gold but if you have for example got 10 grams of amalgam it will be aprox 5 grams of gold in there</p><p></p><p>if it won't break up reasonably easy then I think is is NOT amalgam</p><p></p><p>also I don't know how you have clean gold specks in amongst the grey half and halfers if it is really amalgam?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davsgold, post: 657787, member: 6570"] basically if you can break it up with your fingers it is amalgam, (a bit like play doh) and you should be able to mould it back together with you fingers, (do all this with rubber/plastic glove on please) remember mercury is liquid at room temp and just sucks up the gold like magic and holds it, the gold in the mercury wont even look like gold but if you have for example got 10 grams of amalgam it will be aprox 5 grams of gold in there if it won't break up reasonably easy then I think is is NOT amalgam also I don't know how you have clean gold specks in amongst the grey half and halfers if it is really amalgam? [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Sunny Corner- Gold, amalgam and silver perhaps?
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