Stirrupcay
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I have urgent need for an expert. I have been gathering micron gold in mercury. The material is screened down to lumpy mixture of very fine (talcum powder) mercury covered gold. I add that material into a kiln with borax and fire it at 2100°. In the end... As much as several ounces seems to go out in vapor, as the crucible holds no values at all. Now... I suppose that exposes my ignorance and lack of experience here... That's a fact. It's killing me.
Not a lot of easily obtainable information available. Is it the lack of flux that is giving me nightmares? PLEASE, if you have any info that you can pass on it would sure save a man from jumping off a bridge here.
The process is this.
I gather the gold bearing ore
Crush the ore to talcum powder
Seperate the gold with mercury
Filter the mercury/gold material
Mix an equal amount by volume of borax/gold-merc
Kiln at around 2000 - 2100
Find no values in my crucial at all..
That's pretty much what the procedure has been. What am I not doing right? Roasting? Flux? I need help big time. I also thank you ahead of time for your patience and support.
A desperate prospector....
Not a lot of easily obtainable information available. Is it the lack of flux that is giving me nightmares? PLEASE, if you have any info that you can pass on it would sure save a man from jumping off a bridge here.
The process is this.
I gather the gold bearing ore
Crush the ore to talcum powder
Seperate the gold with mercury
Filter the mercury/gold material
Mix an equal amount by volume of borax/gold-merc
Kiln at around 2000 - 2100
Find no values in my crucial at all..
That's pretty much what the procedure has been. What am I not doing right? Roasting? Flux? I need help big time. I also thank you ahead of time for your patience and support.
A desperate prospector....