Irons
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FrugalRefiner said:Did you get an assay? It would tell you what you have in your material. Is there a chance there is any arsenic in it? I would want to know that before I started throwing any of it in a fire. One of our members had an experience with arsenic. Perhaps Irons will let you know what that was like.eng166 said:Can anyone think of a mistake I may have done?
Dave
That's right, FR. $100K worth of medical bills and I still have not broken even yet, but I'm working on it. :mrgreen: You might get lucky and never have a problem. It took 30 years before I got nailed by an Arsenic mineral that had never been reported in this State (Maine)before. It came out of a crack in a ledge where I had already recovered a quantity of Gold fines, so I didn't pay much attention to it, since it had a Gold-like color to it. My bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_trisulfide
""Roasting" As2S3 in air gives volatile, toxic derivatives, this conversion being one of the hazards associated with the refining of heavy metal ores:
2 As2S3 + 9 O2 → As4O6 + 6 SO2"