stampeden
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I am a new member - and one who has had a few missed opportunities. We processed a gold flotation concentrate with an electrolytic amalgamator. After pressing the mercury, we had a cake larger than any I had seen from only 250 pounds of feed material. Our chief chemist simply would take the cake and dissolve it in nitric acid to leave the gold. The huge cake got smaller and smaller until only a small gold button was left. What was in that cake? To this day, I do not know. But I have the feeling that we were holding a viable site but we did not know how to handle it. Any thoughts. there were 6,000 tons of this material. It was from the Argonaut mine in Jackson, CA. Thanks for your time. Stam Peden