Allen Hammer
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I have mostly been a home remodeler and machine builder in my life, avid naturalist so geology and chemistry for refining I have been trying to learn the last 2 years. I have had 3 conformations of finding some iridium in ore with iron, aluminium, and some other PMs. I have the acids and minor lab to do the job and smelting furnaces, what is the best processes at this point of ore? Magnets to refine for starter, panning, Cook with Bithmus as a collector, Potash, Borax, quarts sand, Sodium Nitrate. What am I missing in my understanding? If I can just smelt down to Bismuth and PMs withbase metals it is sellable to refiners of scrap metals I believe? What do you think gentlemen. I have only been involved in prospecting 3 years. This is from a University lab. I had XRF that confirmed it and after some smelts I had frozen cupels. Stais chloride test. The Hoke book I have looked at and wish to be more familiar with it. I have it and many others about refining but it is so much info to absorb. I realize it is all very dangerous and in this learning at this beginner stage I am the most likely to get hurt, so that is why I am here. A 5 year old with a loaded pistol waving it around the room. A plane plan of action would be nice. THis scan results is of one rock but many have been added from the same hole but I have had many XRFs with a variety of PMs. It is a kind of placer deposit near a stream. Have not found PMs in the stream below. Thanks for whatever help you guys might provide.
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