rhwhite67 said:
Yes My partner and i bought a lot of resin beads as well as T-6 from Mike and I worked with Mike for quite a while once i learned that he did not have a read solid way to retrieve the metal from the T-6 precipitates and have used this material a lot. At the time I was working with him he could show you all the pretty metal in the world under a scope but he did not legitimately have a way to get the metal out of the T-6 precipitate. I have a 55 gallon drum full of the liquid from dropping a lot of metal out of a concentrated H2) source... 44 cents to the gallon in 2003 and it is still setting out on the slab while i continue to try and find a way to retrieve it from the T-6 precipitate that it is locked into via a sulfied/carbon bond. What i do know is that normal sulfied ore assaying technics when used on this stuff simply eats your silver oxide or lead and you end up with a pile of goop. Chemical processes have also proven unsuccessful in recovering the metal from this material once it is dried. If anyone has any suggestions i am open to your thoughts on how to get the metal out as i would love to recover this loss as well as part of the funds which we spent with Mike which in the end, ended up be wasted money and effort as he was basicly full of it. Although he was very good at gathering information from other sources and selling it to people as his "own discoveries" and some of what he has for sale on the sight is worthwhile. A lot of it was just simple horse manure.
Again if someone knows how to process the precipitates to extract the metal from them, I would be very grateful.
P.S. If anyone has a source of H2O with dissolve precious metals in it, after leaving Mike behind and doing a lot of research as well as working on this situation with several really good people who really did know what they were talking about, and of course regretably after our funding ran out I now know exactly how to build a system that will extract the dissolved precious metals from water, and would be very happy to discuss this with you. I know the system works because it has been bench tested and works on a known source of water with precious metals in it. Just wish i had the funds we wasted with Mike back as it would be more than enough to build the unit.
P.P.S. fast and dirty method to test H2) for dissolved precious metal:
Using a kitchen strainer lined with a coffee filter filter 5 gallons of your source water into a 5 gallon bucket. Add 1/4 cup clorox bleach and 1/4 cup plain household amonia and stir vigorously with a log plastic spoon. The foam forming on the to is the precious metals and they will slowly precipitate out and fall to the bottom of the bucket. Carefully pour off the water and filter the powder through a coffee filter. You can then view it under a jewelers loupe or microscope and you will actually see the pieces as small nugget and flake shapes of each metal. this powder can be weighed by a very good scale and will tell you how much metal you can recover per gallon of water. A good estimate is that if the pile in the bottom of the bucket is the size of a dime it is commercially recoveralble and profitable to do so.
Sincerely
Ron White
Bleach with ammonia can form Hydrazine, which is a reducing agent, but it can also form explosive Chloramines. If I want to play Russian Roulette, I'll use a gun, thank you.
No matter what is formed, it will be toxic.
