Wyndham
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I realize that all of the topic here have delt mainly with chemical extraction. I have a question that been nagging me for a bit.
I saw a video of a crude flotation setup in Mongolia where the ore is ground to extremely fine then mixed with water, agitated by large blender s in drums the oil is added. Paddles skim off the froth into a trough and later processed.
Because the oil is a hydrocarbon is it a possibility that the carbon acts like activated charcoal in helping attract the gold to the oil, as well as the stickyness of the oil.
If anyone knows, how efficient is this process and could this work in material that comes from fines from a river that is almost impossible to pan. The blk sands would have to be removed first then classified to below 200 mesh.
I have a bucket of silt from a washed gravel that has micro gold but I don't know how much and thought this might be a way to test a 5 gal bucket of silt.
Also would it make sense to then filter this through activated charcoal?
Have a happy 4th
Wyndham
I saw a video of a crude flotation setup in Mongolia where the ore is ground to extremely fine then mixed with water, agitated by large blender s in drums the oil is added. Paddles skim off the froth into a trough and later processed.
Because the oil is a hydrocarbon is it a possibility that the carbon acts like activated charcoal in helping attract the gold to the oil, as well as the stickyness of the oil.
If anyone knows, how efficient is this process and could this work in material that comes from fines from a river that is almost impossible to pan. The blk sands would have to be removed first then classified to below 200 mesh.
I have a bucket of silt from a washed gravel that has micro gold but I don't know how much and thought this might be a way to test a 5 gal bucket of silt.
Also would it make sense to then filter this through activated charcoal?
Have a happy 4th
Wyndham