I have heard the mining term to charge mercury, dirty mercury can be "charged" or cleaned (distilled) in retort. Sometimes triple distilled.
As we have all said forget the mercury, it is too dangerous, it will not work that great, and there are much better methods.
Give us better description of your gold.
Where the gold it came from.
What treatments has it gone through?
Describe it and how you have proven it to be gold.
We can give you some advice on recover methods if we have some idea of what we are discussing.
From what I understand you are working with fine screened concentrates in black sand (it will not be 24K gold, usually 16 to 18K). It sounds to me you would need a leach, but until we know more details, I will not give advice, because of what you may have up until this point (the advice can be dangerous, if we do not know what you have).
It is very important for you to tell us if this gold has come into contact with your mercury, as suggestions and your safety would depend on these facts.
From what I understand you have mercury that came from a hospital, please put it in good jar with good air tight lid, cover mercury with water(to keep from evaporating into the air), sit this in another plastic tub with lid in a safe place, forget about trying to use mercury to recover for gold. As we said that would be a very bad idea.
Here the mining supply store sells mercury, but I think most people buying it must not know enough about it, to get there gold, or the dangers of this stuff, luckily they also sell retorts, and hopefully they are not poisoning themselves, or driving themselves crazy, (Madd as a Hatter).
As we have all said forget the mercury, it is too dangerous, it will not work that great, and there are much better methods.
Give us better description of your gold.
Where the gold it came from.
What treatments has it gone through?
Describe it and how you have proven it to be gold.
We can give you some advice on recover methods if we have some idea of what we are discussing.
From what I understand you are working with fine screened concentrates in black sand (it will not be 24K gold, usually 16 to 18K). It sounds to me you would need a leach, but until we know more details, I will not give advice, because of what you may have up until this point (the advice can be dangerous, if we do not know what you have).
It is very important for you to tell us if this gold has come into contact with your mercury, as suggestions and your safety would depend on these facts.
From what I understand you have mercury that came from a hospital, please put it in good jar with good air tight lid, cover mercury with water(to keep from evaporating into the air), sit this in another plastic tub with lid in a safe place, forget about trying to use mercury to recover for gold. As we said that would be a very bad idea.
Here the mining supply store sells mercury, but I think most people buying it must not know enough about it, to get there gold, or the dangers of this stuff, luckily they also sell retorts, and hopefully they are not poisoning themselves, or driving themselves crazy, (Madd as a Hatter).
