I am a Mineral Processing Eng. Specialized in Gold Ores AMA

[4metals]

Hello, I would like to message with you.

Is there some reason you cannot pose questions here on the open forum where everyone participating benefits? Or are we evolving from an open forum to a dating site?

 

[kelibern]

I thumbs up the good reply also. Perhaps a little bit of an introduction would be helpful. Subjects as to how you produce ( lode or placer ), how you got to where you are, things which are of interest to me and other members of the forum. Welcome by the way.

I graduated mining engineering than i mastered in mineral processing. ( Hydrometallurgical extraction of gold to be specific ). I have 8 years of industry experience and have worked as an expat on gold mines in Turkey, West Africa, and Central Asia.

 

[Martijn]

how to seperate lead from value in bigger portions than cupellation allows?

not seeing this answer in the replies yet: the parkes process. Then you have zinc with pm's and lead separate.

 

[Jim Morrison]

Is there some reason you cannot pose questions here on the open forum where everyone participating benefits? Or are we evolving from an open forum to a dating site?

I read the introduction post with the 4 questions and didn't think I qualified to post, but if I can speak with a professional as suggested then maybe I can qualify to post.

 

[Yggdrasil]

I read the introduction post with the 4 questions and didn't think I qualified to post, but if I can speak with a professional as suggested then maybe I can qualify to post.

Every member is allowed to post.
If you post something stupid or wrong you will be corrected.
Nothing worse than that.
Well by the way we do not accept uploads if copyrighted material.
Links to public sources of said material is ok.

 

[4metals]

I read the introduction post with the 4 questions and didn't think I qualified to post, but if I can speak with a professional as suggested then maybe I can qualify to post

If your questions are reasonable and well thought out concerning a future or ongoing project you will absolutely be better off posting here than in private messaging. Not that whomever you PM cannot help you, but because the answers you receive from the forum are cross checked from many different perspectives and poor suggestions are ferreted out.

I say this from a career of consulting in this field (now retired) and a forum member for about 15 years. The information received here from serious questions which are followed up with pertinent details will give you options for either processing yourself or better equipped to interview professional consultants.

Please keep in mind if you start out with an “I have these rocks that I look like they have gold” type questions, most of what I have said above may be ignored! But if you search in the library there are examples of members who benefited greatly from answers received.

Good luck.

 

[allen01 pgm big tx]

Hi all i am new here, i join this forum to learn from you. In the mean time please ask me anything.

So I'm well I don't know how to put it. Never seen anybody do Melody g. Or process or or anything in person but I've been trying to for the past couple years and I started with lead yesterday. This is what I got. Am I tricking myself I've had some essays done on a little bit of my ore and I had silver, gold and pgms but I just want to be sure I'm actually collecting them into my lead. That is how it's supposed to look right that it's not just some think I'm going to take to my refiner and get shot down because I will not do that again if anyone could help. And you are an engineer or processing, correct? Please pardon me if there's any typos or weird phrases I use. Talk to text and I'm dyslexic. So please ask for clarity if necessary

 

[Yggdrasil]

So I'm well I don't know how to put it. Never seen anybody do Melody g. Or process or or anything in person but I've been trying to for the past couple years and I started with lead yesterday. This is what I got. Am I tricking myself I've had some essays done on a little bit of my ore and I had silver, gold and pgms but I just want to be sure I'm actually collecting them into my lead. That is how it's supposed to look right that it's not just some think I'm going to take to my refiner and get shot down because I will not do that again if anyone could help. And you are an engineer or processing, correct? Please pardon me if there's any typos or weird phrases I use. Talk to text and I'm dyslexic. So please ask for clarity if necessary

As said more details, as this looks just like more blobs of Lead.

How do you treat your ore?
How do you mix your flux with the ore?
How do you smelt your ore?

And so on.
As detailed as you can please.

 

[4metals]

Never seen anybody do Melody g.

Well either have I. Talk to text isn‘t doing you any favors. Please explain.

 

[allen01 pgm big tx]

As said more details, as this looks just like more blobs of Lead.

How do you treat your ore?
How do you mix your flux with the ore?
How do you smelt your ore?

And so on.
As detailed as you can please.

We might or usually start with campfire roast between 400 and 600 for an hour or two immediately. Scorching crushing roasting a little more if needed. Try to get down to fine powder then I make a roast mix which usually is mainly just a bunch of flour which I roast in a cast iron skillet. Tossing and oxidizing anything off and for about 45 minutes until it doesn't smoke anymore. And I have a black to reddish fine orecollectings I guess. And I washed that sometimes. I'll just depending mainly when I was learning and studying a lot. I did something way different in the collecting process this time and kind of more towards treated it like like an arc furnace would produce steel kind of having the molting lead pool and then pouring in my powder little by little I really got annoyed with fluxes so I kind of re-engineered an HHO torch and a Jeweler's torch combination HHO torch didn't have enough BTU to really get what I was wanting done fast enough without using flux. So I was studying different torches and I realized I could really customize my flame with different mixtures of stable flammable gas materials in my flashback reservoir as long as the vapor was the flammable part and liquid was not. I started playing with different ratios of gasoline and alcohol and alcohol and ethanol and just different mixtures to really customize flame so my thoughts are at least now that could all just be BS and I really have no clue what I'm talking about. I've only really had AI to consult with. I believe it's bonsai deposits I'm getting my order from. It's usually creekside smell like sulfur metamorphic rock iron caseing powders like I said I've had several essays done. I just I never knew where to begin and don't know where to end and I just haven't seen it done so I don't know if I'm even kind of barking up the right tree in the processing that I'm doing because I mean I'm pretty sure alone the ledge shouldn't stick around for how long I keep alone in HHO torch but a petroleum fuel oxy torch

 

[Yggdrasil]

We might or usually start with campfire roast between 400 and 600 for an hour or two immediately. Scorching crushing roasting a little more if needed. Try to get down to fine powder then I make a roast mix which usually is mainly just a bunch of flour which I roast in a cast iron skillet. Tossing and oxidizing anything off and for about 45 minutes until it doesn't smoke anymore. And I have a black to reddish fine orecollectings I guess. And I washed that sometimes. I'll just depending mainly when I was learning and studying a lot. I did something way different in the collecting process this time and kind of more towards treated it like like an arc furnace would produce steel kind of having the molting lead pool and then pouring in my powder little by little I really got annoyed with fluxes so I kind of re-engineered an HHO torch and a Jeweler's torch combination HHO torch didn't have enough BTU to really get what I was wanting done fast enough without using flux. So I was studying different torches and I realized I could really customize my flame with different mixtures of stable flammable gas materials in my flashback reservoir as long as the vapor was the flammable part and liquid was not. I started playing with different ratios of gasoline and alcohol and alcohol and ethanol and just different mixtures to really customize flame so my thoughts are at least now that could all just be BS and I really have no clue what I'm talking about. I've only really had AI to consult with. I believe it's bonsai deposits I'm getting my order from. It's usually creekside smell like sulfur metamorphic rock iron caseing powders like I said I've had several essays done. I just I never knew where to begin and don't know where to end and I just haven't seen it done so I don't know if I'm even kind of barking up the right tree in the processing that I'm doing because I mean I'm pretty sure alone the ledge shouldn't stick around for how long I keep alone in HHO torch but a petroleum fuel oxy torch

I think it is wise to read Bugbee's book on fire assaying so get an idea on how and why we do what we do.