Wanting to sell my placered black sand

[Martijn]

Nothing ran and yes you can see the gold flakes in the black sand and yes it's an endless supply, on my end. Intrested?
Shoot me an email @ [email protected] or [email protected]
Fwy i also have sand from the san andreas fault

Visible gold and you're selling it? Endless supply!
If i found something like that, i would be panning, and ordering bigger equipment from the profits.
And be very silent about it.

 

[galenrog]

Attached is an article from ASAT on how to build a separator for free gold in magnetite.
ASAT no longer exists but their ideas actually work.
Note that this is not a detailed drafting of such a separator but it explains the guiding principles for you to obtain the parts and assembly of these parts.
Deano

Back in the stone ages, well over 30 years ago, when I lived at Fort Irwin, there was a small company near Victorville that was making relatively small separators based on those principles. It is possible that someone could still be doing so.

Time for more coffee.

 

[snail]

The design looks like a standard eddy current separator. V shaped pattern of magnets of alternating polarity rotating at high speed under a thin fiberglass roller.

It creates an electrical eddy current in the conductive particles repelling them from the magnetic pulley. The magnetics stuck and were carried around the pulley and were dropped underneath as it traveled away from the magnetic pulley.

The scrap yard I worked at 30 years ago bought
a 42” wide unit and put it in the air separated waste stream from their 2500 horse power scrap shredder destined for the landfill.

It recovered several hundred pounds of mostly aluminum a day. After a few years it was retired and used as a stand alone unit.

Most memorable was decking from an aluminum street car bridge from Pittsburgh. The pedestrian walkway was paved with aluminum expanded metal embedded in epoxy.

No one wanted the material. We ran it through the shredder separately then the separator. It produced a near perfect separation of the aluminum. Was also used when the company closed its ferrous metals facility after 70 years. They dug up several feet of the surface and ran that material recover a tremendous amount of non ferrous material.

 

[Martijn]

Fwy i also have sand from the san andreas fault

From which part of the 750 mile long fault exactly?

 

[4metals]

From which part of the 750 mile long fault exactly?

That’s classified information, along with the assay.

 

[Barstool miner]

For all you black sand processors out there, I can get you 10 ton truck loads for very little money, you pay the freight. Most assays in the 1 Troy oz. per ton range. Central Colorado location. It has been tabled, so most of the VG is gone. I have contacts at most of the placer mines here with Magnetite sitting in fabric totes. You can't process on their site, so you will need to be set up nearby to make some money.

Hi goldshark, I would be interested if we discussed Prices. Can I purchase 50 pounds of this black sand so I can run it through my Priority process

 

[goldshark]

Hi goldshark, I would be interested if we discussed Prices. Can I purchase 50 pounds of this black sand so I can run it through my Priority process

If you are in central Colorado, I can get you a sample for free. The problem right now, is the mine is shutting down for the year, and roads are getting snowed in, and water is frozen at 10,000 ft. elevation. It is not worth messing with, unless you chemical leach it. On a large scale at that. It is very difficult to permit such a large operation. Probably more money in the Cerium, if anybody is interested.

 

[Barstool miner]

If you are in central Colorado, I can get you a sample for free. The problem right now, is the mine is shutting down for the year, and roads are getting snowed in, and water is frozen at 10,000 ft. elevation. It is not worth messing with, unless you chemical leach it. On a large scale at that. It is very difficult to permit such a large operation. Probably more money in the Cerium, if anybody is interested.

I live in Coachella, California, but if this works out, I can always Relocate. I have found that most of the Gold associated with black sand is encapsulated inside the Black sand, so a wet process is not Practical. Let us Catch up in the new season

 

[kurtak]

I live in Coachella, California, but if this works out, I can always Relocate. I have found that most of the Gold associated with black sand is encapsulated inside the Black sand, so a wet process is not Practical. Let us Catch up in the new season

Per the bold print - this is correct

I posted about that encapsulation a couple times -------------

https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/richest-gold-mine-on-earth.32930/page-2#post-351489

https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/leach-process-for-large-quantity-of-black-sands.31523/page-3

Kurt

 

[goldshark]

I live in Coachella, California, but if this works out, I can always Relocate. I have found that most of the Gold associated with black sand is encapsulated inside the Black sand, so a wet process is not Practical. Let us Catch up in the new season

Gold in black sand will vary from deposit to deposit, and from recovery system to system, including operator skills. It will take a very good lab specializing in metal recovery systems, to determine the path of most economical recovery. Mining is a rich man's hobby. If it was reasonably easy to extract this Au from the black sands, the operators would have done it, and they have pretty deep pockets.

 

[anachronism]

If you are in central Colorado, I can get you a sample for free. The problem right now, is the mine is shutting down for the year, and roads are getting snowed in, and water is frozen at 10,000 ft. elevation. It is not worth messing with, unless you chemical leach it. On a large scale at that. It is very difficult to permit such a large operation. Probably more money in the Cerium, if anybody is interested.

I'd love to work in that mine for a month.

 

[goldshark]

I'd love to work in that mine for a month.

Mine jobs are a little boring. I would liken a big placer operation to a construction site. Pretty much the same thing, only instead of building something, you get a paycheck of Gold at the end of the day. I have only heard one story in my life, of a guy seeing a big nugget laying on the ground. He jumped from the dozer to find a 9 oz. chunk. It is now in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It is known as the Turtle Nugget. Had the Sun been at a different attitude, he may have missed it.
There are a few nuggets left in placer operation tailing piles. Most placer operations rely on minus 1/2" material. I would bet 90+ % of operations screen to this mesh size, before washing.
Long story short, I find most mine jobs REALLY boring. Yeah, you can find a little Gold in a pan, but you have to run volume to make money, A LOT OF VOLUME! The fun part is in the clean up room. You have to build trust to work there.

 

[anachronism]

Mine jobs are a little boring. I would liken a big placer operation to a construction site. Pretty much the same thing, only instead of building something, you get a paycheck of Gold at the end of the day. I have only heard one story in my life, of a guy seeing a big nugget laying on the ground. He jumped from the dozer to find a 9 oz. chunk. It is now in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It is known as the Turtle Nugget. Had the Sun been at a different attitude, he may have missed it.
There are a few nuggets left in placer operation tailing piles. Most placer operations rely on minus 1/2" material. I would bet 90+ % of operations screen to this mesh size, before washing.
Long story short, I find most mine jobs REALLY boring. Yeah, you can find a little Gold in a pan, but you have to run volume to make money, A LOT OF VOLUME! The fun part is in the clean up room. You have to build trust to work there.

Yeah I agree. It's not my first rodeo in a clean up room. I helped a friend design a crushing/heavy sorting system quite a few years back. As you say, that's the interesting part.