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[Platdigger]

[ And then, tomorrow, we'll go to the zoo.




HAHAHA, you are a riot Harold! I am still laughing........haha

Randy

 

[aflacglobal]

Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my !!

 

[goldsilverpro]

A long time ago, I read a couple of interesting books by Gustave LeBon, "The Evolution of Matter" and "The Evolution of Forces." They both can be downloaded free, somewhere on the net. They were written about 90 years ago. Legend has it that, when the US was working on the A bomb, these books were removed from the libraries.

It's been a long time and I may be confusing this with other books. In the first book, I think, LeBon talks about transmutation experiments that had been done. One I remember is the transmutation from sodium to potassium (or, visa versa) in the human body. Another was the transmutation of some element during arc welding. The stuff was fairly convincing.

And, of course, there is the subject of cold fusion.

 

[warlead]

Why bother with the minimal amounts of gold in sea water? If there is any type of process of filtering / concentrating that can be done on water containing gold it would be best IMO to do it in a stream with existing placer gold. I work occasionally on a stream that has run off from an old hard rock mine. We have found everything from large nuggets to very fine flour gold in this area. We have hypothesized that if there was a way to filter the water that the ppm of gold would be quite large. The idea is to put some type of concentrator in place (in the flow from the mine) and then go back and collect it every few months.

Any thoughts on if this would work?

 

[Irons]

Why bother with the minimal amounts of gold in sea water? If there is any type of process of filtering / concentrating that can be done on water containing gold it would be best IMO to do it in a stream with existing placer gold. I work occasionally on a stream that has run off from an old hard rock mine. We have found everything from large nuggets to very fine flour gold in this area. We have hypothesized that if there was a way to filter the water that the ppm of gold would be quite large. The idea is to put some type of concentrator in place (in the flow from the mine) and then go back and collect it every few months.

Any thoughts on if this would work?

Someone tried that here. The set up a long tom and let it run all Summer. Afew days before they were planing to clean it out, persons unknown saved them the trouble. Oh, well.

 

[macfixer01]

It seems like if there was any money to be made recovering gold from sea water, someone would be doing it already as an adjunct to a desalinization plant. If they were already distilling the seawater and concentrating any dissolved solids in the process, it might give acceptable yields to make it worth trying anyway.

I just can't believe this gold from table salt thing. I guess some tiny amount of gold from Sea Salt is possible? Of course since that's a rather gourmet item I imagine it probably costs more than any gold it contains might be worth?

macfixer01

 

[warlead]

I was actually thinking along the lines of a 8" or 10" chunk of PVC with some sort of filter in it that I could 'sink' in the runoff / spring coming out of the hard rock mine. I could then recover it every few months.

 

[eagle2]

And, of course, there is the subject of cold fusion.

Of course, Cold fusion is in the field of Physics, But I had a chemist friend who was convinced he had the math to prove that he could demonstrate a method that that would produce more energy than what was put into it.

He spent the last years of his life and other peoples money (OPM) trying real experiments.

The secret was a low temperature combination of Deuterium and Tritium using special nanotubes. The trouble was the nanotubes do not yet exist. 8)

 

[aflacglobal]

Cold fusion is in the field of Physics

It's there, we just don't have the tech. yet. :wink:

 

[warlead]

Not good I've been relegated to the 'cold fusion' group with my idea. I guess I will have to pursue deep sea mining of nodules

 

[Irons]

I knew some people that were trying to recover colloidal Gold frrom a lake in the West somewhere. They never did say where it was, nor did they begin driving expensive cars last I saw them.

If you look at recent mining exploration and workable discoveries, the ores typically contain less than a few grams per ton. Deposits with visble values are rare.

For small operators, the economics of scale force them to sell to big operators like Barrick.

 

[eagle2]

Hello Warlead:

Yeah, you could set up a pipe with a riffle, but wait for the Spring runoff. Like Irons said. you better hang around.

I read a Prospectors story once, he said, He collects gold from the roadway whistles. All I ever saw was the smallest trace of color welded into the surface of the last riffle. :shock:

Al

 

[warlead]

the flow from the mine is in the neighborhood of 3 or 4 gallons per hour. If I directed that flow through a filter (5 micron water filter?) then take it burn it and then process the ash for any gold or platinum (after like 3 months)?
Just below the mine shaft in the stream we have found 2 very large nuggets and numerous small ones. All are rough and have quartz still attached. Anyway i might try it just for fun to see what happens.

 

[eagle2]

Oh my, that`s not much water.

Do you have a dredge? I would spend time in the stream bed. Or explore the shaft if its still safe.