Non-Chemical a thought on shooting

[Geo]

Ive read many post about cornflaking and shooting BB's and i haven't read about a process that we used to do when i was prospecting.instead of cornflaking we would pour BB's and then flatten with a hammer.it would be a little more time consuming but the finished product is more uniform and from what i was told (15 years ago) it is supposed to help remove some of the impurities,not sure how accurate that is.we were dealing with gold flake and flour gold from our miners moss mostly.the cornflaking seems an awful lot like what we were doing.

 

[Harold_V]

Ive read many post about cornflaking and shooting BB's and i haven't read about a process that we used to do when i was prospecting.instead of cornflaking we would pour BB's and then flatten with a hammer.it would be a little more time consuming but the finished product is more uniform and from what i was told (15 years ago) it is supposed to help remove some of the impurities,not sure how accurate that is.we were dealing with gold flake and flour gold from our miners moss mostly.the cornflaking seems an awful lot like what we were doing.

Flour gold doesn't require any kind of treatment aside from direct dissolution in AR. By the time there's enough silver chloride formed that might become troublesome, slowing dissolution of the finely divided particles of gold alloy, it will have long since been fully dissolved. That's the same principal that is applied to processing karat gold when bench sweeps are processed, or when the gold is reduced to fine particles. I ask your understanding when I say that I have forgotten the name of the process, which was discussed on the forum not too long ago. Our very own 4metals was instrumental in the discussion, if memory serves. (It's hell getting old and forgetful!)

Pouring small shot and flattening with a hammer isn't in the cards for anyone but a guy that has a lot of time to kill. I see no particular advantage to the process, certainly not anything better than pouring cornflakes, and it's monumentally faster preparing the flakes. Not suggesting it doesn't work, just that it's way too labor intensive, with no particular gain. I do understand it's use from the perspective of a guy working in the field, but not for processing in the lab.

Harold

 

[Geo]

i agree.i watched Goldenchilds video on shooting and even though the cornflakes he produced isnt as pretty :lol: it was alot faster.we just smelted and poured right from the crucible into the water.the reason we were doing it that way to begin with was we were selling to a refiner in Georgia named Igotmine and he didnt like buying gold dust and we got a better price for it that way, i dont know why.